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Person·Miguel de Cervantes✕clear

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never led to good intention's goal.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1615

★ 2.2

There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say: the haves and the have-nots.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1615

★ 2.2

The pen is the tongue of the soul.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1615

★ 2.3

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Miguel de Cervantes

The Dialogue of the Dogs · 1613

★ 3.8

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1605

★ 3.9

We cannot all be friars, and many are the ways by which God leads his own to eternal life. Knight-errantry is religion.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1615

★ 3.9

He's a muddle-headed fool, with frequent lucid intervals.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1615

★ 4.0

Blessed be he that invented sleep.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1615

★ 4.0

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; "Tis meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot." Tis the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man even.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1615

★ 5.5

That's the nature of women... Not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1605

★ 5.5

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1605

★ 6.4

I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1605

★ 6.5

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1605

★ 6.5

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

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1615

★ 7.3