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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface."
Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays the part.
The Two Hands of God: The Myths of Polarity (1969)
The reason for the unreason with which you treat reason, so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep?
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
Every one is the son of his own works.
Let every man mind his own business.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Let the worst come to the worst.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)