Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 8 quotes The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water. | #412 | | Save it ? 1 ⤫ I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose. | #413 | | Save it ? 0 ⤫ Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. | #414 | | Save it ? 0 ⤫ There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it. | #415 | | Save it ? 1 ⤫ Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. | #416 | | Save it ? 0 ⤫ Hunger is the best sauce in the world. | #417 | | Save it ? 0 ⤫ He who reads much and walks much, goes far and knows much. | #418 | | Save it ? 0 ⤫ What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease. | #419 | | Save it ? 0