“Seine Ehre kann auch der Arme behalten, nicht aber der Schlechte.”

“In the shadow of feigned cripples and false wounds come the strong arms of thieves and very healthy drunkards.”

“What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?”

“As regards your government of yourself and your household, Sancho, my first piece of advice is to be clean and to cut your fingernails, and not to let them grow long, as some people do, moved by ignorance to believe that long nails make their hand look beautiful, as if those appendages, those excrescences that they leave uncut have any right to be called fingernails at all, because they are more like talons of a kestrel: a monstrous and filthy abuse.”

“... he who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is...”

“There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.”

“It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.”