A person dishonored is worst than dead.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.