More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
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.
He most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.
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 were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
