More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
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.
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
He is most blessed who loves the most, the freest who is most enslaved by love,
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
