Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him. - Miguel de Cervantes
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. - Miguel de Cervantes
Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are. - Miguel de Cervantes
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash...Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. - Miguel De Cervantes
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. - Miguel de Cervantes
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. - Miguel de Cervantes
Man have to have friends even in hell. - Miguel de Cervantes
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. - Miguel de Cervantes
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. - Miguel de Cervantes
Short sentences drawn from long experiences. - Miguel de Cervantes
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. - Miguel de Cervantes
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. - Miguel de Cervantes.
Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long. - Miguel de Cervantes
The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part. - Miguel de Cervantes
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. - Miguel de Cervantes
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice. - Miguel De Cervantes