More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
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.
