NovelLove and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.Miguel de CervantesDon Quixote · 1615★ 7.3
NovelNow blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; "Tis meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot." Tis the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man even.Miguel de CervantesDon Quixote · 1615★ 5.5
NovelHe's a muddle-headed fool, with frequent lucid intervals.Miguel de CervantesDon Quixote · 1615★ 4.0
NovelWe cannot all be friars, and many are the ways by which God leads his own to eternal life. Knight-errantry is religion.Miguel de CervantesDon Quixote · 1615★ 3.9
NovelDiligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never led to good intention's goal.Miguel de CervantesDon Quixote · 1615★ 2.2
NovelThere are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say: the haves and the have-nots.Miguel de CervantesDon Quixote · 1615★ 2.2
LetterIn disputes about natural phenomena one must begin not with the authority of Scriptural passage but with sensory experience and necessary demonstrations. For the Holy Scripture and nature derive equally from the Godhead, the former as the dictation of the Holy Spirit and the latter as the most obedient executrix of God's orders.Galileo Galilei1615★ 1.9
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