Spanish
Author,
Poet,
Artist and
Playwright
(September 29,
1547 -
April 23,
1616)
"Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory."
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd."
"It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."
"Jests that give pains are no jests."
"Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable."
"Love not what you are, but what you may become."
"Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves."
"Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn."
"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."
"Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within."
"Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome."
