More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
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,
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
He most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
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.
