Miguel de Cervantes

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Fair and softly goes far.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.