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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Business
Difficult
World
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.
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Demands
Nonsense
Produce
Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Cleverest
Character
Comedy
Fool
Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra
What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Dangerous
Poet
Incurable
Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra
He is most blessed who loves the most, the freest who is most enslaved by love,
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Blessed
Loves
Freest
Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Loses
Friend
Courage
Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra
There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Greater
World
Despair
Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Fortune
Man
Sum
Works
Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Everyone
God
Oftentimes
Great Deal
Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra
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.
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Consider
Comparable
Honor
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.
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Sleeping
Reading
Completely
Mind
Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Stretched
Breaks
Floats
Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Embraces
Great
Love
Display
Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Reason
Unreason
Weakens
Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra
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.
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Advice
Long Time
Maddest
Life
Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Pretend
Riddle
Mind
Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Begging
Power
Earn
Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Example
Misfortune
Adversary
Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra
He most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Perceptive
Character
Wishes
Simpleton
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.
― Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Beauty
Inspire Love
Pleases
Affections
Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra