"That’s the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not."
― Miguel de Cervantes
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Nature
More From Miguel de Cervantes
- "There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it."
- "Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other."
- "I believe there’s no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences."
More In Nature
- "There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance."― Henry David Thoreau
- "There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century."― Arthur Erickson
- "It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse."― David Bailey