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.
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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.
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.
He is most blessed who loves the most, the freest who is most enslaved by love,