Miguel de Cervantes ( 10 of 34 )
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
Fair and softly goes far.
Fair and softly goes far.
Absence, that common cure of love.
Absence, that common cure of love.
Jests that give pains are no jests.
Jests that give pains are no jests.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause read more
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or read more
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the read more
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.
