“Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.”
War
“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
PowerAll Quotes by 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.”
Graduation“The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.”
Knowledge“Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.”
Art“God bears with the wicked, but not forever.”
God“Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.”
Death“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.”
Truth“Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.”
Best“Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.”
Experience“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.”
Courage“There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.”
War“Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.”
Truth“Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”
Fear“A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”
Experience“When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.”
Art“Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”
Design“That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.”
Nature“To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.”
Fear“Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.”
Truth“He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.”
Courage