Procurad también que, leyendo vuestra historia, el melancólico se mueva a risa, el risueño la acreciente, el simple no se enfade, el discreto se admire de la invención, el grave no la desprecie, ni el...
But one of shallow wit, somewhat like a saltshaker with very little salt. In
—Dios lo oiga –dijo Sancho– y el pecado[12] sea sordo, que siempre he oído decir que más vale buena esperanza que ruin posesión.
Pues, ¿no sería vuesa merced —replicó ella— uno de los que a pie quedo sirviesen a su rey y señor, estándose en la corte?
And yet the power of thought has always been so far beyond us that the main difference between men and animals is: they can think and we can’t.
Time has more power to undo and change things than the human will.
— No —dijo creyendo a su imaginación, y esto, con voz que pudiera ser oída—; no ha de ser parte la mayor hermosura de la tierra para que yo deje de adorar la que tengo grabada y estampada en la mitad...
Possess all things as if you possessed them not...
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...
Y advierta Sancho que las obras de caridad que se hacen tibia y flojamente no tienen mérito ni valen nada.
Fame that mortals desire as a reward and a portion of the immortality their famous deeds deserve; though we Catholic Christians and knights-errant look more to that future glory that is everlasting in...
I’m a peaceful, mild, and quiet man, and I know how to conceal any insult because I have a wife and children to support and care for.
Seated on his horse, resting in his stirrups and leaning on the end of his lance, filled with sad and troubled forebodings;
It was a hard life, a life of poverty, of incessant struggle, of toil ill paid, of disappointment, but Cervantes carried within himself the antidote to all these evils.
It is the privilege and charm of beauty to win the heart and secure good-will,
Traigo alborotado y trastornado el juicio.
Capítulo LXVI. Que trata de lo que verá el que lo leyere, o lo oirá el que lo escuchare leer
Troglodyte
Her name is Dulcinea, her kingdom, Toboso, which is in La Mancha, her condition must be that of princess, at the very least, for she is my queen and lady, and her beauty is supernatural, for in it one...
Júntate a los buenos y serás uno dellos,
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