Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
Miguel de Cervantes
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Miguel de Cervantes
Age: 69 †
Born: 1547
Born: January 1
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
Accountant
Author
Lyricist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Soldier
Tax Collector
Writer
Alcala de Henares
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Cortinas
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas
Doe
Govern
Freedom
Others
More quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
Miguel de Cervantes
The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
Miguel de Cervantes
It takes all sorts (to make a world
Miguel de Cervantes
Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
Miguel de Cervantes
Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
Miguel de Cervantes
You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
Miguel de Cervantes
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Miguel de Cervantes
'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
Miguel de Cervantes
Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
Miguel de Cervantes
Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
Miguel de Cervantes
He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho, that's all the divinity I can understand.
Miguel de Cervantes
Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
Miguel de Cervantes
Too much sanity may be madness!
Miguel de Cervantes
For hope is always born at the same time as love.
Miguel de Cervantes
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.
Miguel de Cervantes
Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
Miguel de Cervantes
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
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes
My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
Miguel de Cervantes
