Miguel De Cervantes Quotes
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. 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. 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. I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea. In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. Jests that give pains are no jests. Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable. Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. Man appoints, and God disappoints. Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. 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. One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves. Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
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