Miguel de Cervantes: To do good to villains is to pour water into the sea.

To do good to villains is to pour water into the sea. — Miguel de Cervantes

To do good to villains is to pour water into the sea.

Source: Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 3.0). Quotations may be subject to their authors' rights and may be shown in translation.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he — Miguel de Cervantes
There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-Nots. — Miguel de Cervantes
I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth. — Miguel de Cervantes
The pot calls the kettle black. — Miguel de Cervantes
Great undertakings are always fraught with many obstacles. It is these obstacles — Swami Vivekananda
A scholar who loves comfort is not worthy of the name. — Confucius
Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying. — Roy T. Bennett
You never fail until you stop trying. — Albert Einstein
I loafe and invite my soul. — Walt Whitman
All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as — Anton Chekhov
We have a Calvinistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Arminian clergy. — William Pitt
It is impossible that each of the elements should be infinite. For that is body — Aristotle