More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
He is most blessed who loves the most, the freest who is most enslaved by love,
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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?
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.