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More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die.
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
He most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
Consider, that no jewel upon earth is comparable to a woman of virtue and honor; and, that the honor of the sex consists in the fair characters they maintain.
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
