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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Miguel De Cervantes

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Miguel De Cervantes

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

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.

Miguel De Cervantes

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Miguel De Cervantes

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Miguel De Cervantes

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Miguel De Cervantes

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.

Miguel De Cervantes

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Miguel De Cervantes

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Miguel De Cervantes

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Miguel De Cervantes

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Miguel De Cervantes

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Miguel De Cervantes

Every man is the son of his own works.

Miguel De Cervantes

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Miguel De Cervantes