Cervantes
Don Quixote
Sayings by Cervantes
There are two kinds of beauty, one of the soul and the other of the body.
Love is a great master.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick.
All that glitters is not gold.
The greatest enemy of truth is not falsehood, but indifference.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
To err is human, to forgive divine.
The die is cast.
There is no evil that does not bring some good.
Too much sanity may be madness.
I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose.
A dog's obeyed in office.
The fault is not in the wine but in the drinker.
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
Let every man mind his own business.
The greatest madness a man can commit is to let himself die without being killed by anyone, or without ending his days by some other means than melancholy.
There are only two families in the world: the Haves and the Have-Nots.