There are many theologians who are not good in the pulpit but are excellent at recognizing the lacks or excesses of those who preach.
Scholarship without virtue is like pearls in a dunghill
Más vale pájaro en mano que buitre volando.
Buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing. An olla
Open thine arms and receive, too, thy son Don Quixote, who, if he comes vanquished by the arm of another, comes victor over himself, which, as he himself has told me, is the greatest victory anyone ca...
Take care, Sancho, said Samson; honours change manners, and perhaps when you find yourself a governor you won't know the mother that bore you.
O apaixonado que conta suas desgraças a quem não as sente causa mais sono que pena em quem o ouve.
Thou hast seen nothing yet.
Quiero decir que la conversación de vuestra merced ha sido el estiércol que sobre la estéril tierra de mi seco ingenio ha caído;
En más se ha de estimar y tener un humilde virtuoso que un vicioso levantado;
Vagabond knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called 'The Knight of the Rueful Countenance.
El que me llama fiera y basilisco déjeme como cosa perjudicial y mala; el que me llama ingrata no me sirva; el que desconocida, no me conozca; quien cruel, no me siga; que esta fiera, este basilisco,...
Una golondrina no hace verano de Don Quijote de la Mancha
…que hay dos maneras de hermosura: una del alma y otra del cuerpo; la del alma campea y se muestra en el entendimiento, en la honestidad, en el buen proceder, en la liberalidad y en la buena crianza,...
Para que se me alegre este corazón, que tan triste y descontento ha estado en todos los siglos de vuestra ausencia.
Mountains breed learned men and shepherds' huts house philosophers.
I am not in the habit', said Don Quixote, 'of despoiling those whom I vanquish, nor is it a custom of chivalry to take their horses and leave them on foot, unless the victor has lost his own horse in...
Those who had listened to Grisóstomo’s song thought it was very good, though the one who read it said he did not think it conformed to the accounts he had heard of Marcela’s virtue and modesty, becaus...
Deteneos y sed más bien criado, y dadme cuenta de lo que os he preguntado; si no, conmigo sois todos en batalla. Era la mula asombradiza, y al tomarla del freno se espantó de manera que, alzándose en...
Don Quixote did not sleep at all that night but thought of his lady Dulcinea, in order to conform to what he had read in his books of knights spending many sleepless nights in groves and meadows, turn...
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