Cervantes
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra – 22 April 1616), was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists...
heart luck break
A stout heart breaks bad luck.
courage taken birth
Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.
traitor treason please
The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
women bears affront
Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
communication dark light
Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
kings snakes devil
Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
virtue nobility truest
Virtue is the truest nobility.
vanity thee preserves
A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.
knowing-who-you-are knights monsters
Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.
long knows long-time
It requires a long time to know anyone.
rocks pot break
Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time
made
We are all as God made us and frequently much worse.
hands devil world
You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
thinking advice bird
You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.