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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

Miguel de Cervantes
Lying, Madness, Lunatic
"Fictional character: Cervantes". "Man of La Mancha" by Dale Wasserman, 1965.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Miguel de Cervantes
Lying, Literature, Cowardice

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel de Cervantes
Dream, Lying, May

True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

Miguel de Cervantes
Lying, Cowardice, Middle

True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

Miguel de Cervantes
Lying, Cowardice, Valor
"Don Quixote de la Mancha".

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

Miguel de Cervantes
Lying, Deceit, Stories
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.264

Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.

Miguel de Cervantes
Crazy, Lying, Fate
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1976). “The Portable Cervantes”, p.427, Penguin

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