Cuya madre es la historia, émula del tiempo, depósito de las acciones, testigo de lo pasado, ejemplo y aviso de lo presente, advertencia de lo por venir.
Como por ver que es más el número de los simples que de los prudentes; y que, puesto que es mejor ser loado de los pocos sabios que burlado de los muchos necios, no quiero sujetarme al confuso juicio...
Como no la sabía, ya le tenía por cuerdo y ya por loco, porque lo que hablaba era concertado, elegante y bien dicho, y lo que hacía, disparatado, temerario y tonto.
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.
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 !
Ya sabes tú, amigo, que decía mi madre que era menester vivir mucho para ver mucho: dígolo porque pienso ver más si vivo más,
X. Donde se cuenta la industria que Sancho tuvo para encantar a la señora Dulcinea, y de otros sucesos tan ridículos como verdaderos Llegando el autor desta grande historia a contar lo que en este cap...
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
What intelligent things you say sometimes ! One would think you had studied.
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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...
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 is my friend Durandarte, flower and mirror of the true lovers and valiant knights of his time. He is held enchanted here, as I myself and many others are, by that French enchanter Merlin, who, th...
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.
The only thing that troubled him was the reflection that this kingdom was in the land of the blacks, and that the people they would give him for vassals would be all black; but for this he soon found...
The first thing he did was to clean up some armour that