More Quotes by 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.
What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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.
