More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
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.
He most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
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.
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
