Teneos, señores, teneos, que no es razón toméis venganza de los agravios que el amor nos hace; y advertid que el amor y la guerra son una misma cosa, y así como en la guerra es cosa lícita y acostumbr...
So then, his armour being furbished, his morion turned into a helmet, his hack christened, and he himself confirmed, he came to the conclusion that nothing more was needed now but to look out for a la...
Siempre, Sancho, lo he oído decir, que el hacer bien a villanos es echar agua en la mar.
Pues, ¿no sería vuesa merced —replicó ella— uno de los que a pie quedo sirviesen a su rey y señor, estándose en la corte?
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...
Pero Cavalcanti se volvió hacia ellos, guiñó los ojos, infló la mejilla con la lengua, e hizo oír un sonido con los labios, que equivale a mil signos de inteligencia entre los bandidos y les obliga a...
No more, said one of the two who seemed to be monarchs, no more, divine singer, for it would mean continuing into infinity if you were to represent for us now the death and charms of the peerless Alti...
No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.
Mind, Sancho, I do not say that a proverb aptly brought in is objectionable; but to pile up and string together proverbs at random makes conversation dull and vulgar.
Julius Caesar, that valiant Roman emperor, was asked what was the best death, and he responded the one that was unexpected, sudden, and unforeseen...
In short, our gentleman became so immersed in his reading that he spent whole nights from sundown to sunup and his days from dawn to dusk in poring over his books, until, finally, from so little sleep...
Here, then, I say is what the student has to undergo; first of all poverty:
Gracias doy al cielo por la merced que me hace, pues tan presto me pone ocasiones delante donde yo pueda cumplir con lo que debo a mi profesión,
For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
En resolución, él se enfrascó tanto en su letura, 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 celebro...
Desta manera habían de salir de sus gobiernos todos los malos gobernadores, como sale este pecador del profundo del abismo: muerto de hambre, descolorido, y sin blanca, a lo que yo creo.
Despite all this, we stayed in the hospital that night, and when the old woman found me alone on the grounds she asked, Is it you, Montiel? Is it you, perchance, my boy? I lifted my head and looked up...
Dame Fortune once upon a day To me was bountiful and kind; But all things change; she changed her mind, And what she gave she took away. O Fortune, long I've sued to thee; The gifts thou gavest...
Cuando te dieren la vaquilla, corre con la soguilla; y Cuando viene el bien, mételo en tu casa.
But what made him still more fortunate, as he said himself, was having a daughter of such exceeding beauty, rare intelligence, gracefulness, and virtue, that everyone who knew her and beheld her marve...