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More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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.
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.
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
