Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

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

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

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

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

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

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Alas! all music jars when the soul’s out of tune.

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.