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 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

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

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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

Jests that give pains are no jests.
Miguel de Cervantes

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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

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

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
Miguel De Cervantes

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Miguel de Cervantes

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
Miguel de Cervantes