Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.