Miguel de Cervantes

“Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”

“There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.”

“Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”

“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”

“Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.”

“It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.”

“The eyes those silent tongues of love.”

“Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.”

“One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.”

“He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.”

“A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”

“Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.”

“The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.”

“For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.”

“To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.”