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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
In great dangers, the small hope of overcoming them draws desperate strength from the spirit.
Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (The Travails of Persiles and Sigismunda) (1617)
It is the nature of women to disdain those who love them, and to love those who abhor them.
Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
The rather since every man is the son of his own works.
There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness — its opposite — never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
There is no greater folly in this world than for a man to despair.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
He who reads much and walks much sees much and knows much.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
What a man has, so much he's sure of.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)