63 Motivational Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (Author of Don Quixote)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (born 29 September 1547, Alcala de Henares, Spain – died 22 April 1616, Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote (1605, 1615), a work often cited as both the first modern novel and one of the pinnacles of world literature. He is also the author of other works such as La Galatea, Rinconete y Cortadillo, and his Exemplary Novels among many others.
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die.
All I know is that while I’m asleep, I’m never afraid, and I have no hopes, no struggles, no glories — and bless the man who invented sleep, a cloak over all human thought, food that drives away hunger, water that banishes thirst, fire that heats up cold, chill that moderates passion, and, finally, universal currency with which all things can be bought, weight and balance that brings the shepherd and the king, the fool and the wise, to the same level. There’s only one bad thing about sleep, as far as I’ve ever heard, and that is that it resembles death, since there’s very little difference between a sleeping man and a corpse.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected.Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued.For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?He who’s down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.Hunger is the best sauce in the world.All sorrows are less with bread.
In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The knight’s sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.Thou hast seen nothing yet.He who sings scares away his woes.Until death it is all life.For hope is always born at the same time as love.A shy face is better than a forward heart.Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.Every man is the son of his own works.Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?A stout heart breaks bad luck.Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.Seek for good, but expect evil.I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.It’s up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they’re going well.Facts are the enemy of truth.
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Remember that there are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body. That of the soul displays its radiance in intelligence, in chastity, in good conduct, in generosity, and in good breeding, and all these qualities may exist in an ugly man. And when we focus our attention upon that beauty, not upon the physical, love generally arises with great violence and intensity. I am well aware that I am not handsome, but I also know that I am not deformed, and it is enough for a man of worth not to be a monster for him to be dearly loved, provided he has those spiritual endowments I have spoken of.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.Love not what you are but only what you may become.Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!...Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched.Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one....truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.Without intelligence, there can be no humour.
