More Quotes by 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.
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
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.
The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
He is most blessed who loves the most, the freest who is most enslaved by love,
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
