More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
He most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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.
