“Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies.”

— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605–1615)

About Miguel de Cervantes

1547 – 1616

Spanish novelist, author of "Don Quixote".

“Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowheartedness.”

“Every one is the son of his own works.”

“When one is contented, there is no more to be desired.”

“I know that oft we tremble at an empty terror, but the false phantasm brings a real misery.”

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”

“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”