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More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
He most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
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.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
