Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.

If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha