According to what I have heard, true love is not divided and must be voluntary, not forced. If this is true, as I believe it is, why do you want to force me to surrender my will, obliged to do so simp...
A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm...
Without intelligence, there can be no humour.
Love, as I have heard say, sometimes flies and sometimes walks; with this one it runs, with that it moves slowly; some it cools, others it burns; some it wounds, others it slays; it begins in the cour...
Doing one thing instead of another is the same as lying.
But if virtue were the wealth that is held in high esteem, I would not envy the fortunes of others or weep for my own misfortunes.
Although this is poetic fiction, it contains hidden moral truths worthy of being heeded and understood and imitated,...
La libertad, Sancho, es uno de los más preciosos dones que a los hombres dieron los cielos; con ella no pueden igualarse los tesoros que encierra la tierra ni el mar encubre; por la libertad, así como...
The reason for the unreason to which my reason turns so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of thy beauty. And also when he read:…the heavens on high divinely heighten thy divinity with the...
So he went on stringing together these and other absurdities, all in the style of those his books had taught him, imitating their language as well as he could; and all the while he rode so slowly and...
Saliéronle al encuentro y, preguntándole por don Quijote, les dijo como le había hallado desnudo en camisa, flaco, amarillo y muerto de hambre, y suspirando por su señora Dulcinea; y que puesto que le...
SONETOEl muro rompe la doncella hermosaque de Píramo abrió el gallardo pecho;parte el Amor de Chupre, y va derechoa ver la quiebra estrecha y prodigiosa,Habla el silencio allí, porque no osala voz ent...
Remember everything and do not miss a detail of how she receives you: if her color changes as you give her my message; if she becomes agitated or troubled when she hears my name; if she moves about on...
Eso me parece, Sancho —dijo don Quijote—, a lo que sucedió a un famoso poeta destos tiempos, el cual, habiendo hecho una maliciosa sátira contra todas las damas cortesanas, no puso ni nombró en ella a...