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Danh ngôn của Miguel de Cervantes (Sứ mệnh: 3)

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
To be prepared is half the victory.
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.