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More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
He most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
