We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

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.

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.