Demasiada cordura puede ser la peor de las locuras, ver la vida como es y no como debería de ser.Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho.
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
Love and war are exactly alike. It is lawful to use tricks and slights to obtain a desired end.
I don’t see what my arse has to do with enchantings!
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
…but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
There is remedy for all things except death – Don Quixote De La Mancha
After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.
… truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
I do not insist,” answered Don Quixote, “that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.”~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~
Anyone who is ignorant, even a lord and prince, can and should be counted as one of the mob.
Tell me thy company, and I’ll tell thee what thou art
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
…in the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.
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.
It seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free.
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.