Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
Miguel de CervantesHe who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.
Miguel de CervantesTruly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
Miguel de CervantesRoque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote.
Miguel de Cervantes