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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes
25 of the best book quotes from Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
01
To surrender dreams — this may be madness.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
dreams
ᐧ
madness
concepts
02
Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Sancho Panza
character
death
ᐧ
life
concepts
03
The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
war
ᐧ
honor
concepts
04
The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
character
concept
05
The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
nonsense
concept
06
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
love
concept
07
Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Don Quixote
character
destiny
concept
08
He who’s down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
sleeping
ᐧ
laziness
concepts
09
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
hunger
concept
10
The knight’s sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Don Quixote
character
care
concept
11
Perhaps to be too practical is madness.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
madness
concept
12
Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
madness
concept
13
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
madness
concept
14
For hope is always born at the same time as love.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
love
ᐧ
hoping
concepts
15
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
truth
concept
16
Until death it is all life.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
death
ᐧ
life
concepts
17
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Don Quixote
character
hardship and misfortunes
concept
18
“There is no book so bad but it has something good in it.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
The Bachelor
ᐧ
Don Quixote
characters
books
ᐧ
goodness
concepts
19
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
reading
ᐧ
sleeping
ᐧ
craziness
concepts
20
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
good and evil
concept
21
It’s up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they’re going well.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
happiness
ᐧ
bravery
concepts
22
For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Don Quixote
character
good and evil
concept
23
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman’s mind?
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Cardenio
character
the mind
ᐧ
women
concepts
24
Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
humor
ᐧ
intelligence
concepts
25
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author
Don Quixote
book
Sanson
character
writing
ᐧ
history
concepts
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