"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."

"El amor y la afición con facilidad ciegan los ojos del entendimiento."

"Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good."

"The fault is not in the wine but in the drinker."

"Too much sanity may be madness — and the maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be."