Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away...
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
That is the nature of women, said Don Quixote. They reject the man who loves them and love the man who despises them.
TESTIMONIO DE LAS ERRATAS Este libro no tiene cosa digna que no corresponda a su original; en testimonio de lo haber correcto, di esta fee. En el Colegio de la Madre de Dios de los Teólogos de la Univ...
Si os la mostrara —replicó don Quijote—, ¿qué hiciérades vosotros en confesar una verdad tan notoria? La importancia está en que sin verla lo habéis de creer, confesar, afirmar, jurar y defender; dond...
Sancho tried to amuse him and cheer him up by chatting to him, and said, among other things, what is recorded in the next chapter.
Possess all things as if you possessed them not...
Plunge, scoundrel, rogue, monster—for such I take thee to be—plunge, I say, into the mare magnum of their histories; and if thou shalt find that any squire ever said or thought what thou hast said now...
No me gusta la fuerza bruta, pero la razón bruta es totalmente insoportable. No está bien utilizarla. Es como golpear por debajo del intelecto.
I’m so lucky, said Sancho, that when that happens and your grace finds such a sword, it’ll be exactly like the balm and only work for and benefit dubbed knights, while squires can just swallow their s...
In any case, Cide Hamete Benengeli was a very careful historian, and very accurate in all things, as can be clearly seen in the details he relates to us, for although they are trivial and inconsequent...
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...
Hear me now, o thou bleak and unbearable worldThou art base and debauched as can be.
Couldst thou find no other sort of punishment for these sinners but bearding them?
Casildea de Vandalia, the rawest and best
But once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads
Here lies a gentleman boldWho was so very braveHe went to lengths untold,And on the brink of the graveDeath had on him no hold.By the world he set small store--He frightened it to the core--Yet someho...
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
—Señor, yo soy hombre pacífico, manso, sosegado, y sé disimilar cualquiera injuria, porque tengo mujer y hijos que sustentar y criar. Así que, séale a vuestra merced también aviso, pues no puede ser m...