“Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.”
Art
“When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.”
ArtAll Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes
“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.”
Power“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“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.”
Parenting“When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.”
Art“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“That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.”
Nature“God bears with the wicked, but not forever.”
God“The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.”
Knowledge“A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”
Experience“He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.”
Courage“There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.”
War“Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.”
Truth“Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.”
Music“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“Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.”
Truth“I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.”
Experience“Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”
Fear“Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”
Design