«Do not strive to hide your poverty, nor that of your family. When once it is understood that you are not ashamed of it, no one will try to make you blush over it.» So Alonso Quijano, advised his servant.
A favor kindly granted, is doubled.
He, whom you have once humiliated, is not likely to forget it.
A gem thrown away may be recovered, but the time lost in searching for it, can never be.
There is no true love where there is no true esteem.
To doubt in silence, is better than to contradict too readily.