More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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.
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
He is most blessed who loves the most, the freest who is most enslaved by love,
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.
