For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Feast of All Souls If you ask me how I believe in God, how God creates Himself in me, and reveals...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate where...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid --...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is s...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothe...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how y...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek so...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, e...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to f...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is s...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO It is sad not to be loved but it is much sadder not to be able to love
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO No os quepais en el cerebro lo que os puede caber en el bolsillo. Y al contrario, ¡no os quepais en...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO To awaken the sleeping and rouse the loitering is a work of supreme mercy, and to seek the truth in ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO The vanity of the passing world and love are the two fundamental and heart-penetrating notes of true...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Science is a cemetery of dead ideas
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to f...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Cásate con la mujer que te quiera, aunque no la quieras tú. Es mejor casarte para que le conquiste...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO ¿Y qué es amor? ¿Quién definió el amor? Amor definido deja de serlo...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO And wherefore do you want to be immortal? you ask me, wherefore? Frankly, I do not understand the qu...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, e...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Hasta que se llora de veras no se sabe si se tiene o no alma.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or f...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO El que tiene fe en sí mismo no necesita que los demás crean en él.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Consciousness is a disease
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Life is doubt,
And faith without doubt is nothing but death.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulen...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humo...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES To be prepared is half the victory.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Patience and shuffle the cards.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays t...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage lose...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his bod...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Te...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Jests that give pains are no jests.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revi...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear,...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without governmen...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Man appoints, and God disappoints.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than hi...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than ju...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compar...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Eat not garlic nor onions, lest they find out thy boorish origin by the smell; walk slowly and speak...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Fair and softly goes far.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts a...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these boo...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES That which costs little is less valued.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES He preaches well that lives well.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, There were but two families in the world, have-much and have...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd le...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrous...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Miracle me no miracles.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A person dishonored is worst than dead.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and natural...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES He had a face like a blessing.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The eyes those silent tongues of love.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail o...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Absence -- that common cure of love.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Faint heart never won fair lady.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as g...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Absence, that common cure of love.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with anot...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Virtue is the truest nobility.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unre...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, di...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging the...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothe...
MIGUEL DE UNANIMO Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Facts are the enemy of truth.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does ab...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Short sentences drawn from long experiences.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by h...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy tha...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wis...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Every man is the son of his own works.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the oth...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphab...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I've never worked with the Java community.
MIGUEL DE ICAZA I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your plat...
MIGUEL DE ICAZA Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.
MIGUEL DE ICAZA Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and the goal of a good intention was never reached through ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES