The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. Miguel de Cervantes More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes More Quotes From Miguel de Cervantes Where there's music there can be no evil. Miguel de Cervantes evil Love not what you are but only what you may become. Miguel de Cervantes visionmaylove The wicked are always ungrateful. Miguel de Cervantes ingratitudeungratefulwicked When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all. Miguel de Cervantes dawngod History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future. Miguel de Cervantes exampleactionpast Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. Miguel de Cervantes self-esteemliteratureenemy The eyes those silent tongues of love. Miguel de Cervantes tongueeyelove Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man. Miguel de Cervantes freedommenhands 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it. Miguel de Cervantes runningmorninglove Wit and humor belong to genius alone. Miguel de Cervantes wit-and-humorwitgenius The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach. Miguel de Cervantes stomacheatingheart It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds. Miguel de Cervantes knightseyeresponsibility Give the devil his due. Miguel de Cervantes devilrevengegiving Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side. Miguel de Cervantes queenscolorlatin Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. Miguel de Cervantes cautiontongueeye The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written. Miguel de Cervantes tonguesoulwriting Take away the cause, and the effect ceases. Miguel de Cervantes cause-and-effectcausesbusiness A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. Miguel de Cervantes wisdominspirationallong The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were. Miguel de Cervantes historianpoetrymay A closed mouth catches no flies. Miguel de Cervantes mouths
