Miguel de Cervantes

“Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.”

“It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit 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.”

“That which costs little is less valued.”

“When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.”

“Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.”

“When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.”

“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.”

“He preaches well that lives well.”

“I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.”

“One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.”

“Jests that give pains are no jests.”

“Thou hast seen nothing yet.”

“He had a face like a blessing.”

“Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.”

“הכבוד והרווח אינם יכולים לישון באותה מיטה.”

“לגבר יש אש, לאישה יש נסורת, השטן מגיע ונושף.”

“שלושים חודש, והכומר שלהם לא יכול היה לגרום לחמור לנעור נגד רצונו.”

“חשוד בשור שלפניך, בפרדה שמאחריך ובנזירים שמכל צדדיך.”

“כל מה שמכוסה מתגלה.”