Top 500 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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 Saavedra

302. “Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

303. “I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.”

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304. “It is by rugged paths like these they go That scale the heights of immortality, Unreached by those that falter here below.”

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305. “Do we know exactly who we are? The more urgently we quest for our authentic selves, the more they tend to recede. The Knight and Sancho, as the great work closes, know exactly who they are, not so much by their adventures as through their marvelous conversations, be they quarrels or exchanges of insights.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

306. “You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the ’versal world but what you can turn your hand into.”

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307. “He who clipped us has kept the scissors.”

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308. “Take care, Sancho,” said Samson; “honours change manners, and perhaps when you find yourself a governor you won’t know the mother that bore you.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

309. “Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.”

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310. “Countless were the hares ready skinned and the plucked fowls that hung on the trees for burial in the pots, numberless the wildfowl and game of various sorts suspended from the branches that the air might keep them cool. Sancho counted more than sixty wine skins.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

311. “The ability to reason the un-reason which has afflicted by reason saps my ability to reason, so that I complain with good reason of your infinite loveliness.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

312. “By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.”

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313. “Where envy reigns virtue can’t exist, and generosity doesn’t go with meanness.”

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314. “But I have heard it said,” said Don Quixote, “that troubles take wing for the man who can sing.”

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315. “No man is more than another unless he does more than another.”

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316. “There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.”

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317. “I was born like everyone else, and a man must not live in dependence on anyone except God;.”

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318. “Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.”

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319. “Does the devil possess you? You’re leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.”

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320. “When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.”

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321. “Everything disturbs an absent lover.”

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322. “She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.”

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323. “If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.”

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324. “Senor Sancho Panza must know that we too have enchanters here that are well disposed to us, and tell us what goes on in the world, plainly and distinctly, without subterfuge or deception; and believe me, Sancho, that agile country lass was and is Dulcinea del Toboso, who is as much enchanted as the mother that bore her; and when we least expect it, we shall see her in her own proper form, and then Sancho will be disabused of the error he is under at present.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

325. “By God, master,” said Sancho, “the island that I cannot govern with the years I have, I’ll not be able to govern with the years of Methuselah; the difficulty is that the said island keeps its distance somewhere, I know not where; and not that there is any want of head in me to govern it.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

326. “Get the better of yourself – this is the best kind of victory.”

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327. “When we are asleep, we are all equal.”

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328. “As ill-luck would have it.”

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329. “Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.”

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330. “When a man says, “Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?” there is no answer to be made.”

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331. “Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.”

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332. “Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.”

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333. “Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.”

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334. “Friends, whoe’er ye be that are immured in that prison, forgive me that, to my misfortune and yours, I cannot deliver you from your misery;.”

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335. “The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.”

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336. “You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.”

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337. “Let the worst come to the worst.”

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338. “Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.”

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339. “God who sends the wound sends the medicine.”

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340. “As soon as Don Quixote had read the inscription on the parchment he perceived clearly that it referred to the disenchantment of Dulcinea, and returning hearty thanks to heaven that he.”

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341. “Love is invisible, and comes in and goes out as he likes, without anyone calling him to account for what he does.”

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342. “I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.”

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343. “Berganza, I’m not shocked that – since there’s good and bad in all of us – we get the hang of evil in no time.”

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344. “Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.”

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345. “Trying to stop slanderers’ tongues is like trying to put gates to the open plain.”

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346. “Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker.”

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347. “Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.”

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348. “Wit and humor belong to genius alone.”

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349. “It seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free.”

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350. “But our depraved age does not deserve to enjoy such a blessing as those ages enjoyed when knights-errant took upon their shoulders the defence of kingdoms, the protection of damsels, the succour of orphans and minors, the chastisement of the proud, and the recompense of the humble.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra