Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

- Miguel de Cervantes

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

- Miguel de Cervantes

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

- Miguel de Cervantes

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

- Miguel de Cervantes

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

- Miguel de Cervantes

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

- Miguel de Cervantes

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

- Miguel de Cervantes

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

- Miguel de Cervantes

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

- Miguel de Cervantes

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

- Miguel de Cervantes

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

- Miguel de Cervantes

To be prepared is half the victory.

- Miguel de Cervantes

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

- Miguel de Cervantes

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

- Miguel de Cervantes

Virtue is the truest nobility.

- Miguel de Cervantes

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

- Miguel de Cervantes

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

- 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

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

- Miguel de Cervantes

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

- Miguel de Cervantes