More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
He most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
