That’s the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. – Miguel de Cervantes
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea. – 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. – 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. – 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
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. – 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
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
Well, there’s a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other. – Miguel de Cervantes
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. – Miguel de Cervantes
