Nuestro Chimborazo es Montmartre, nuestro Himalaya es el Mont-Valerien, nuestro gran desierto es la llanura de Grenelle, en que hay algún que otro pozo para que las caravanas encuentren agua.
Ni todos los que se llaman caballeros lo son de todo en todo: que unos son de oro, otros de alquimia, y todos parecen caballeros, pero no todos pueden estar al toque de la piedra de la verdad.
My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
Many were the offenses to be undone, the wrongs to be rectified, the grievances to be redressed, the abuses to be corrected and the debts to be satisfied.
Lo mismo ocurre en algunas plantas dimorfas, como yo mismo lo he observado. Ciertamente, al principio, parece un hecho muy notable que la misma mariposa hembra tenga la facultad de producir al mismo t...
La victoria completa se produce cuando el ejército no lucha, la ciudad no es asediada, la destrucción no se prolonga durante mucho tiempo, y en cada caso el enemigo es vencido por el empleo de la estr...
In short, he became so absorbed in his books that he spent his nights from sunset to sunrise, and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little sleep and much reading his brains g...
If, for my sins, or by my good fortune, I come across some giant hereabouts, a common occurrence with knights-errant, and overthrow him in one onslaught, or cleave him asunder to the waist, or, in sho...
I heard them name them when they were tossing me, and one was called Pedro Martinez,
I have always heard it said, Sancho, that to do good to boors is to throw water into the sea.
I betook myself to these solitudes, resolved to end here the life I hated as if it were my mortal enemy. But fate would not rid me of it, contenting itself with robbing me of my reason,
Have I not already told you', replied Don Quixote, 'that I intend to imitate Amadis, and to act the desperate, foolish, furious lover so as also to imitate the valiant Orlando, when he found signs by...
Esta Dulcinea del Toboso, tantas veces en esta historia referida, dicen que tuvo la mejor mano para salar puercos que otra mujer de toda la Mancha.
Do we know exactly who we are? The more urgently we quest for our authentic selves, the more they tend to recede. The Knight and Sancho, as the great work closes, know exactly who they are, not so muc...
Do not issue many edicts, and if you do, try to make them good ones, and, above all, ones that are carried out and obeyed; for edicts that are not carried out are as good as nonexistent, and they let...
Disdain can kill, suspicions true or falsecan bring down patience; and jealousy slayswith grim ferocity; long absence canconfound a life; feared oblivion defeatsthe surest hope for a life of happiness...
Dios os perdone el agravio que habéis hecho a todo el mundo en querer volver cuerdo al más gracioso loco que hay en él!
De todo esto ha de carecer mi libro, porque ni tengo qué acotar en el margen, ni qué anotar en el fin, ni menos sé qué autores sigo en él, para ponerlos al principio, como hacen todos, por las letras...
Cervantes making an editorial judgment as the purported translator of Don Quixote, Part II (supposedly written by a third party, but actually written by Cervantes himself) as to what not to include. H...
Cada día se ven cosas nuevas en el mundo: las burlas se vuelven en veras y los burladores se hallan burlados.