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More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
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.
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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.
He most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
