No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. Miguel de Cervantes on parenting
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. Miguel de Cervantes on power
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. Miguel de Cervantes on truth
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. Miguel de Cervantes on truth
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. Miguel de Cervantes on truth
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. Miguel de Cervantes on war
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. Miguel de Cervantes on war
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. Miguel de Cervantes on women
'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 on love
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. Miguel De Cervantes on women