More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
