Cuente vuesa merced su historia como debe, que ya sabe que toda comparación es odiosa, y, así, no hay para qué comparar a nadie con nadie.
Cuando se acaba la vida, a todos les quita la muerte las ropas que los diferenciaban, y quedan iguales en la sepultura.
But in the end, like a good squire and good servant, he let his love for his master prevail over his affection for his ass;
Because where there is great love, generally there is not excessive boldness.
At times the just must pay for sinners.
And the crystal waters of the brooks, murmuring over the grey and white pebbles, hastened to pay their tribute to the expectant rivers;
And so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind.
After being cured of his chivalry disorder, my uncle, by reading these, took a fancy to turn shepherd and range the woods and fields singing and piping; or, what would be still worse, to turn poet, wh...
Your grace, come back, Senor Don Quixote, I swear to God you're charging sheep !
You should know, Sancho, said Don Quixote, that love shows no restraint, and does not keep within the bounds of reason as it proceeds, and has the same character as death: it attacks the noble palaces...
Ya sabes tú, amigo, que decía mi madre que era menester vivir mucho para ver mucho: dígolo porque pienso ver más si vivo más,
What intelligent things you say sometimes ! One would think you had studied.
Vemos aquí que el ganado determina en absoluto la existencia del pino; pero en diferentes regiones del mundo los insectos determinan la existencia del ganado. Quizá el Paraguay ofrece el ejemplo más c...
Todos los vicios, Sancho, traen un no sé qué de deleite consigo, pero el de la envidia no trae sino disgustos, rancores y rabias.
Thus we see the truth of the old saying, to the effect that the innocent must sometimes pay for the sins of the guilty.
Thou knowest that my voice is sweet, That is if thou dost hear; And I am moulded in a form Somewhat below the mean.
This, however, is of but little importance to our tale; it will be enough not to stray a hair's breadth from the truth in the telling of it.
This is a fault incident to all those who presume to translate books of verse into another language. For, however much care they take and however much ability they employ, they can never equal the qua...
There is not the least thing can be said or done but people will talk and find fault.
The reason of the unreasonableness which against my reason is wrought, doth so weaken my reason, as with all reason I do justly complain on your beauty.