Oh, now I have it,” responded Don Quixote. “You mean to say that you are so pliant, so docile and softhearted, that you will accept what I tell you and learn what I teach you.” “I’ll bet,” said Sancho, “you knew what I was saying and understood me from the beginning, but wanted to mix me up so you could hear me make another two hundred mistakes.” “That may be,” replied Don Quixote. “Tell me, then, what does Teresa say?
Thus we see the truth of the old saying, to the effect that the innocent must sometimes pay for the sins of the guilty.
Doing good to the lowborn is throwing water into the sea.
A la guerra me lleva mi necesidad; si tuviera dineros, no fuera, en verdad.
Silence spoke for the two lovers, and their eyes were the tongues that revealed their chaste and joyful thoughts.
They did not embrace each other, for where there is deep love there will never be overmuch boldness.
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, freed of its mortal shell, is led across the dark infernal Styx, it will celebrate you still, and with that song it will halt the waters of oblivion.2.
Advierte que es desati-, siendo de vidrio el teja-, tomar piedras en las ma- para tirar al veci-.
It is better to be rich in thought than poor in possession.
For inheriting property wipes out or softens down in the heir the feeling of grief the dead man might be expected to leave behind him.
No more,” said one of the two who seemed to be monarchs, “no more, divine singer, for it would mean continuing into infinity if you were to represent for us now the death and charms of the peerless Altisidora, who is not dead, as the ignorant world thinks, but alive on the tongues of Fame...
Scarce had the fair Aurora given bright Phoebus time to dry the liquid pearls upon her golden locks with the heat of his fervent rays, when.
And one morning before dawn on a hot day in July, without informing a single person of his intentions, and without anyone seeing him, he armored himself with all his armor and mounted Rocinante, wearing his poorly constructed helmet, and he grasped his shield and took up his lance and through the side door of a corral he rode out into the countryside with great joy and delight at seeing how easily he had given a beginning to his virtuous desire.
After I came down from the sky, and after I looked at the earth from that great height and saw how small it was, the burning desire I had to be a governor cooled a little; where’s the greatness in ruling a mustard seed, or the dignity or pride in governing half a dozen men the size of hazel nuts?
It is a wise man’s duty to save himself for to-morrow, and not risk everything on one day.
No se abrazaron unos a otros, porque donde hay mucho amor no suele haber demasiada desenvoltura.
On the one hand they regarded him as a man of wit and sense, and on the other he seemed to them a maundering blockhead, and they could not make up their minds whereabouts between wisdom and folly they ought to place him.
I am Orlando who, Quixote, undone by fair Angelica, saw distant seas, and offered on the altars of Lady Fame the valor that respected oblivion. I cannot be your equal; I am humbled by your prowess, your noble deeds, your fame, for you, like me, have gone and lost your mind. But my equal you will be if you defeat the haughty Moor, the charging beast; today we are called equal in ill-fated love.
He then directed one of the ladies to gird on Don Quixote’s sword, which she did with much gravity and composure; for it was all they could do to keep from laughing at every point of the ceremony, but the thought of the knight’s prowess which they had already witnessed was sufficient to restrain their mirth.
To become eminent in letters costs time, sleepless nights, hunger, nakedness, dizzy spells, indigestion and other related problems, some of which I have already mentioned.