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More Quotes by 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.
What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
He most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
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.
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
