True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.

You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

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

Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.