Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes about Man

Miguel de Cervantes Spanish novelist

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about man

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about man

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about man

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about man

Every man is the son of his own works.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about man

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.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about man

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

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about man

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about man

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.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about man

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about man

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about man

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about man

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about man