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 Graduation
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other. -Miguel de Cervantes Death
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. -Miguel de Cervantes Truth
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. -Miguel de Cervantes Women
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 Life
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 Learning
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. -Miguel de Cervantes Truth
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 Humor
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. -Miguel de Cervantes Nature
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 Courage
