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...
too-much good-things too-much-of-a-good-thing
Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
drinking wine secret
Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
seven frightened senses
I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
broken fountain results
The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
buckets rope prudence
Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
eggs results frying
It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
fire frying-pans thai
Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
rome
When you are at Rome, do as you see.
envy reign virtue
In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
sex broken promise
I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their double-dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections.
army soldier
The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.
people cheat cunning
Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
desire
She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
men delight world
Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.