Don Quixote

"All sorrows are bearable if there is bread."

"Hunger is the best sauce in the world."

"A knight errant without a lady-love is like a tree without leaves."

"There is no greater madness than to lose one's mind for love."

"Tell me what company thou keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art."

"A warrior's greatest victory is over himself."

"There is no greater proof of love than to be willing to die for another."

"The wise man adjusts to the times; the fool tries to adjust the times to himself."

"Time is the best judge and healer of all wounds."

"Justice without mercy is tyranny; mercy without justice is weakness."

"Fortune helps the bold and brave, but abandons the fearful and craven."

"A good death does honor to a whole life."

"The tongue is the sword of a woman, and she never lets it rust."

"Adversity is the best school of virtue."

"There is no strength in the absence of will."

"Every dog has his day, and the cat may follow."

"The greatest riches is a contented mind."

"A lie has no legs to run on, but truth has wings to fly."

"Despair is the companion of the cowardly."

"A good name is better than great riches."

"Truth needs no ornament of words to make it acceptable."

"Love makes the wildest heart tame and the tamest heart wild."

"The greatest power in the world lies in words."

"To die for one's country is an honor; to live for it is a duty."

"Silence is golden, but speech is silver."

"Better a modest certainty than a grand hope."

"There is no adventure too perilous for a knight in love."

"It is the nature of women to be moved by trifles and to desert those who have deserved well of them."

"The pen and the sword, though apparently opposed, work together for the preservation of the state."

"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."