More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.
