Miguel de Cervantes
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.Collection: Remembrance
Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.Collection: Funny
Good Christians should never avenge injuries.Collection: Christian
Every production must resemble its author.Collection: Creativity
There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.Collection: Two
Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.Collection: Life
Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.Collection: Death
It takes all sorts (to make a worldCollection: World
All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.Collection: Irritation
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.Collection: Horse
Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.Collection: Wine
Behind the cross is the devil.Collection: Devil
A shy face is better than a forward heart.Collection: Heart
The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.Collection: Home
She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.Collection: Desire
If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.Collection: Blood
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.Collection: Easter
He that gives quickly gives twice.Collection: Giving
He who reforms, God assists.Collection: Reform
The little birds have God for their caterer.Collection: Bird
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.Collection: Book
Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.Collection: Cost
A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without causeCollection: Knights
I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.Collection: Seven
Many littles make a much.Collection: Littles
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.Collection: Causes
Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.Collection: Honey
Facts are the enemy of truth.Collection: Witty
God exalts the man who humbles himself.Collection: Men
Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.Collection: Love Is
The wicked are always ungrateful.Collection: Ungrateful
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.Collection: Work
Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.Collection: Motivational
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.Collection: Wise
Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.Collection: Understanding
Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.Collection: Knowing Who You Are
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.Collection: Sleep
A good name is better than bags of gold.Collection: Names
When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.Collection: God
The road to the inn is much better than the stay.Collection: Life
A stout heart breaks bad luck.Collection: Heart
Give the devil his due.Collection: Revenge
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.Collection: Sight