— Mira, Sancho —dijo don Quijote—, mucha diferencia hay de las obras que se hacen por amor a las que se hacen por agradecimiento.
¿dónde hallastes vos ser bueno el nombrar la soga en casa del ahorcado?
¿Ves la patria consumida y de enemigos cercada,
Valentía;
Si al palomar no le falta cebo, no le faltarán palomas.
For it is the business and duty of historians to be exact, truthful, and wholly free from passion, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor love, should make them swerve from the path of truth, whose...
En la tardanza suele estar muchas veces el peligro;
Could see you all strung by the gills, like sardines on a twig!
You are a coward by nature, Sancho, said don Quixote, yet to prevent you from claiming I am obstinate and never do as you recommend, just this once I shall take your advice and keep my distance from t...
That way, when the wolf came, I’d stand a better chance of catching him. Week in and week out they’d raised the alarm, and one sable-black night I lay in ambush for those wolves against whom I’d faile...
Take care, Sancho, said Samson; honours change manners, and perhaps when you find yourself a governor you won't know the mother that bore you.
Sancho, que la boca sin muelas es como molino sin piedra, y en mucho más se ha de estimar un diente que un diamante.
Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres
Many people go looking for wool and come back shorn.
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
How is it possible that things so trivial and so easy to remedy can have the power to perplex and absorb an intelligence as mature as yours, and one so ready to demolish and pass over much greater dif...
Es natural condición de las mujeres desdeñar a quien las quiere y amar a quien las aborrece
Enfrena la lengua, considera y rumia las palabras antes que te salgan de la boca, y advierte que hemos llegado a parte donde, con el favor de Dios y valor de mi brazo, hemos de salir mejorados en terc...
But now, in these our detestable times, no maiden is safe, even if she is hidden and enclosed in another labyrinth like the one in Crete; because even there, through chinks in the wall, or carried by...
But I have heard it said, said Don Quixote, that troubles take wing for the man who can sing.