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

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

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.

When in doubt, lean to the side of #‎ mercy .

Every one in his own house and God in all of them.

Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.