Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

The only way to survive among the evil and corrupt is to be even more wicked and more corrupt than they are!

[Utah is] A place not desired by the wicked.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

I've never met anyone who is seriously bad.

He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.

If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.