I swear to hold my tongue about it till the end of your worship's days, and God grant I may be able to let it out tomorrow
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...
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...
Asno eres, y asno has de ser, y en asno has de parar cuando se te acabe el curso de la vida; que para mí tengo que antes llegará ella a su último término que tú caigas y des en la cuenta de que eres b...
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
—Sin duda este tu amo, Sancho amigo, debe de ser un loco. —¿Cómo debe? –respondió Sancho–. No debe nada a nadie, que todo lo paga, y más cuando la moneda es locura.
— No entiendo eso —replico Sancho—; sólo entiendo que, en tanto que duermo, ni tengo temor, ni esperanza, ni trabajo ni gloria; y bien haya el que inventó el sueño, capa que cubre todos los humanos pe...
— Así lo pienso hacer —dijo don Quijote—; y vuesas mercedes me den licencia, pues ya es hora para irme al lecho, y me tengan y pongan en el número de sus mayores amigos y servidores. — Y a mí también...
The horse has come, our beards are growing, and by every hair in them all of us implore thee to shave and shear us, as it is only mounting him with thy squire and making a happy beginning with your ne...
Posesión pacífica.
La soberbia;
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...
Ella quedó satisfecha, por verse con fama, aunque infame.
Could see you all strung by the gills, like sardines on a twig!
At times the just must pay for sinners.
There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.
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.
Scholarship without virtue is like pearls pearls