Cervantes
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra – 22 April 1616), was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists...
courage taken birth
Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.
food looks cheesecake
Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
buckets rope prudence
Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
lovers uneasy industrious
Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
pain expect-nothing labor
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes
helping god-help
God helps everyone with what is his own.
heart luck break
A stout heart breaks bad luck.
deeds urgent prompts
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
followers folly comrade
Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
thee contempt familiarity
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
spring evil deeds
Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
desperate-measures desperate urges
Necessity urges desperate measures.
stones ill pitcher
Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
traitor treason please
Treason pleases, but not the traitor.