More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
He is most blessed who loves the most, the freest who is most enslaved by love,
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
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.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
