Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

virtue is more persecuted by the wicked than loved by the good.

until death it's all life

take my advice and live many years; for the foolishest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die

Come, don't be lazy, but get up from your bed and let us take to the fields in shepherd's trim as we agreed.

I was born to be an example of misfortune, and the target and mark at which the arrows of adversity are aimed and directed.

it will be enough not to stray a hair's breadth from the truth in the telling of it.

There is no book so bad but it has something good in it

the reason of the unreason with which my reason is afflicted so weakens my reason that with reason I murmur at your beauty

the high heavens, that of your divinity divinely fortify you with the stars, render you deserving of the desert your greatness deserves."

the reason of the unreason with which my reason is afflicted so weakens my reason that with reason I murmur at your beauty;