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

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

Get out of harms way.

The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.

Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.

Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.