“...for hope is always born at the same time as love...”

“To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.”

“Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”

“Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.”

“Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.”

“There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body,That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct,Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man;And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body,Love is usually born suddenly and violently.”

“For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.”