More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
He most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
