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...
fighting men evil
The man who fights for his ideals is alive.
long victory half
Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
madness
Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
nature book air
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.
miracle
Miracle me no miracles.
get-well recovery past
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
secret graves
I shall be as secret as the grave.
summer spring moving
To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.
battle giants windmills
Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
honesty policy
Honesty's the best policy.
journey inns
The journey is better than the inn".
abundance good-things
Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued
should-have ends should
I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
sight inspire doe
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.