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

I have other fish to fry.

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

Little said is soon amended.

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.

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.