There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other. - Miguel de Cervantes

...no es un hombre más que otro si no hace más que otro.

Great hearts, my dear master, should be patient in misfortune as well as joyful in prosperity. And this I judge from myself. For if I was merry when I was Governor now that I’m a squire on foot I’m not sad, for I’ve heard tell that Fortune, as they call her, is a drunken and capricious woman and, worse still, blind; and so she doesn’t see what she’s doing, and doesn’t know whom she is casting down or raising up.

all we want now is to find out what king, Christian or pagan, is at war and has a beautiful daughter;