More Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
He is most blessed who loves the most, the freest who is most enslaved by love,
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
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 cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
