Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
8 quotes by Miguel de Cervantes (died 1616), taken from 2 works. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Works quoted: Don Quixote and Exemplary Novels.
Don Quixote
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“There is no proverb that is not true, all being maxims drawn from experience itself, the mother of all the sciences.”
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“Remember, Sancho, diligence is the mother of good fortune, and indolence, its opposite, never yet attained the object of an honest ambition.”
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“If thou make virtue thy aim, and take a pride in doing virtuous actions, thou wilt have no cause to envy those who have princely and lordly ones, for blood is an inheritance, but virtue an acquisition.”
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“Let the tears of the poor man find with thee more compassion, but not more justice, than the pleadings of the rich.”
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“Good luck betide him that invented sleep, the cloak that covers over all a man’s thoughts, the food that removes hunger, the drink that drives away thirst, the fire that warms the cold, the cold that tempers the heat.”
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“Strive, too, that in reading your story the melancholy may be moved to laughter, and the merry made merrier still; that the simple shall not be wearied.”
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“Strive to lay bare the truth, as well amid the promises and presents of the rich man, as amid the sobs and entreaties of the poor.”
Exemplary Novels
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“There is a remedy for every misfortune excepting death. The best thing your worship can do now is to have patience, for after all it is God who has made us, and after one day there comes another.”