La mayor locura que puede hacer un hombre en esta vida es dejarse morir
...if the verses are for a literary competition, your grace should try to win second place; first is always won through favor or because of the high estate of the person, second is won because of pure...
Truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.
Ah gospodine! - reći će sinovica; - naredite vi mirne duše da se i te knjige spale kao i druge, jer dok moj gospodar stric ozdravi od viteške bolesti, ne bi bilo čudo da njega, ako on uščita te knjige...
En resolución, él se enfrascó tanto en su lectura, que se le pasaban las noches leyendo de claro en claro, y los días de turbio en turbio, y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el cerebr...
A Man Without Honoris Worse than Dead.
Hasta Sancho Panza lloraba, aunque después dijo que no lloraba él sino por ver que Dorotea no era, como él pensaba, la reina Micomicona, de quien él tantas mercedes esperaba.
I kako ovaj tvoj spis ne ide ni za čim drugim nego da uništi ugled i vlast koju i među svijetom i među svjetinom uživaju viteške knjige, ne treba ti prosjačiti sentencije od filozofa, rečenice iz Svet...
Having cleaned his armor and made a full helmet out of a simple headpiece, and having given a name to his horse and decided on one for himself, he realized that the only thing left for him to do was t...
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~
Y cuando, por otra parte, vemos individuos que, aun sacados jóvenes del estado natural, perfectamente amansados, habiendo vivido bastante tiempo y sanos -de lo que podría dar yo numerosos ejemplos-, t...
...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be only a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing it, but by...
That which costs little is less valued.
Anyone who is ignorant, even a lord and prince, can and should be counted as one of the mob.
It seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free.
In a village of La Mancha,
All we want now is to find out what king, Christian or pagan, is at war and has a beautiful daughter;
A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
A closed mouth catches no flies.