We know already ample experience that it does not require much cleverness or much learning to be a governor, for there are a hundred round about us that scarcely know how to read.
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
He was by profession a humanist, and that his pursuits and studies were making books for the press,
Es, pues, de saber que este sobredicho hidalgo, los ratos que estaba ocioso, que eran los más del año, se daba a leer.
I cannot say positively whether my sweet enemy is pleased or not that the world should know I serve her; I can only say in answer to what has been so courteously asked of me, that her name is Dulcinea...
The landlord replied he had no chickens, for the kites had stolen them.
Godo Quijote, ilustre y claro, por Dulcinea sois al mundo eterno, y ella, por vos, famosa, honesta y sabia.
And yet I do not think that this sad duty ends for me on the day that my life ends, but with a cold, dead tongue, a lifeless mouth, I shall lift my voice in sweetest song to you. And when my soul, fre...
Y así, si tuviera cien lunares como el que dices, en ella no fueran lunares, sino lunas y estrellas resplandecientes.
Besides, if truth be told, what I eat, even if it’s bread and onion, tastes better to me in my corner without fancy or respectful manners, than a turkey would at other tables where I have to chew slow...
Busco en la muerte la vida, salud en la enfermedad, en la prisión libertad, en lo cerrado salida y en el traidor lealtad. Pero mi suerte, de quien jamás espero algún bien, con el cielo ha estatuido qu...
Que el comenzar las cosas es tenerlas medio acabadas. — ¡Par
Sometimes when a father has an ugly, loutish son, the love he bears him so blindfolds his eyes that he does not see his defects, or, rather, takes them for gifts and charms of mind and body, and talks...
So suddenly? It must’ve been for love. That love is strong medicine, and often carries a strong chaser of regret.
Truth may be stretched thin and not break, and it always floats on the surface of the lie, like oil on water.
Everything I have done, am doing, and shall do follows the dictates of reason and the laws of chivalry,
The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away...
El tiempo, descubridor de todas las cosas, no se deja ninguna que no las saque a la luz del sol, aunque esté escondida en los senos de la tierra. Y,
El que me llama fiera y basilisco déjeme como cosa perjudicial y mala; el que me llama ingrata no me sirva; el que desconocida, no me conozca; quien cruel, no me siga; que esta fiera, este basilisco,...
Je cherche dans la mort la vie,Dans la prison la liberté,La santé dans la maladie,Dans le traître la loyauté.Mais mon infortune est si grandeQue le destin impatienté,Si l'impossible je demande,M'a le...
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