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...
trying desire want
She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
wisdom wicked virtue
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
work men brave
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
mother perseverance men
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
god pain sake
We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
queens latin color
Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
wish laziness good-wishes
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
happiness singing-songs singing
He who sings frightens away his ills.
discipline literature praise
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
inspirational funny graduation
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.
god dawn
When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
thinking
Think before thou speakest.
honey
Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
prompts urgent
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.