Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616) quotes

• A closed mouth catches no flies.
• A person dishonored is worst than dead.
• A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
• Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
• He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
• Man appoints, and God disappoints.
• Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
• Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
• No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
• Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
• The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
• The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
• Thou hast seen nothing yet.
• Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
• Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
• Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flot one time or other.
• When thou art at Rome, do as they do in Rome.