Miguel De Cervantes

But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

Too much sanity may be madness!

That one man scorned and covered with scars _x000D_ Still strove with his last ounce of courage _x000D_ To reach the unreachable star.

The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.

To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.

Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

All sorrows are less with bread.

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.