There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.

Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.