Miguel de Cervantes

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

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

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.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

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

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.