Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.

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.

Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.