3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes That’s the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes I believe there’s no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there’s more reason to fear than to hope.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes Well, there’s a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
