Miguel De Cervantes

The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.

There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha

A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls

The journey is better than the inn".

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.

My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.