Facts are the enemy of truth.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.

It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.

A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.