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  "slug": "don-quixote-pg996",
  "title": "Don Quixote",
  "quotes": [
    {
      "text": "It is not that the Spanish idioms are so utterly unmanageable,\nor that the untranslatable words, numerous enough no doubt, are so\nsuperabundant, but rather that the sententious terseness to which the\nhumour of the book owes its flavour is peculiar to Spanish, and can at\nbest be only distantly imitated in any other tongue."
    },
    {
      "text": "It is not a\nquestion of caviare to the general, or, if it is, the fault rests with him\nwho makes so."
    },
    {
      "text": "fidelity to the method is as much a\npart of the translator’s duty as fidelity to the matter."
    },
    {
      "text": "The method by which Cervantes won the ear of the Spanish\npeople ought, mutatis mutandis, to be equally effective with the great\nmajority of English readers."
    },
    {
      "text": "the translator who uses the\nsimplest and plainest everyday language will almost always be the one who\napproaches nearest to the original."
    },
    {
      "text": "It is only natural, therefore, that the biographers of Cervantes, forced\nto make brick without straw, should have recourse largely to conjecture,\nand that conjecture should in some instances come by degrees to take the\nplace of established fact."
    },
    {
      "text": "A\nman who could look back upon an ancestry of genuine knights-errant\nextending from well-nigh the time of Pelayo to the siege of Granada was\nlikely to have a strong feeling on the subject of the sham chivalry of the\nromances."
    },
    {
      "text": "The owner of Rodrigo, however, was more easily\nsatisfied; ransom was accepted in his case, and it was arranged between\nthe brothers that he should return to Spain and procure a vessel in which\nhe was to come back to Algiers and take off Miguel and as many of their\ncomrades as possible."
    },
    {
      "text": "When Cervantes saw what had befallen them, he charged his companions to\nlay all the blame upon him, and as they were being bound he declared aloud\nthat the whole plot was of his contriving, and that nobody else had any\nshare in it."
    },
    {
      "text": "Cervantes by\nforce of character, by his self-devotion, by his untiring energy and his\nexertions to lighten the lot of his companions in misery, had endeared\nhimself to all, and become the leading spirit in the captive colony, and,\nincredible as it may seem, jealousy of his influence and the esteem in\nwhich he was held, moved this man to compass his destruction by a cruel\ndeath."
    },
    {
      "text": "The sole\nfoundation for all this is that in 1605 there certainly was living in the\nfamily of Cervantes a Doña Isabel de Saavedra, who is described in an\nofficial document as his natural daughter, and then twenty years of age."
    },
    {
      "text": "He was more successful in a literary contest at Saragossa in 1595 in\nhonour of the canonisation of St. Jacinto, when his composition won the\nfirst prize, three silver spoons."
    },
    {
      "text": "The old\nsoldier of the Spanish Salamis was bent on being the Aeschylus of Spain."
    },
    {
      "text": "At sixty-eight he was as full of life and hope and plans for the\nfuture as a boy of eighteen."
    },
    {
      "text": "it is like the irritation of a man stung by a\nmosquito in the dark."
    },
    {
      "text": "He who could take Cervantes’\ndistresses together with his apparatus for enduring them would not make so\nbad a bargain, perhaps, as far as happiness in life is concerned."
    },
    {
      "text": "Si monumentum quoeris,\ncircumspice."
    },
    {
      "text": "To try to think of a Don Quixote\nwithout Sancho Panza is like trying to think of a one-bladed pair of\nscissors."
    },
    {
      "text": "he is an unconscious Mephistopheles,\nalways unwittingly making mockery of his master’s aspirations, always\nexposing the fallacy of his ideas by some unintentional ad absurdum,\nalways bringing him back to the world of fact and commonplace by force of\nsheer stolidity."
    },
    {
      "text": "it is his madness makes\nhim virtuous"
    },
    {
      "text": "Sancho stands before us as he might in a character portrait\nby Velazquez"
    },
    {
      "text": "the\nincongruity of Sancho in all his ways, words, and works, with the ideas\nand aims of his master"
    },
    {
      "text": "Cervantes always\nleaves you alone with Don Quixote and Sancho"
    },
    {
      "text": "there is no book richer in individualised character"
    },
    {
      "text": "the strength of which lies in the perception of the incongruous"
    },
    {
      "text": "Under\nmy cloak I kill the king"
    },
    {
      "text": "I\nfound none greater than the making of this Preface thou art now reading"
    },
    {
      "text": "The remedy for this is very simple: You have only\nto look out for some book that quotes them all, from A to Z as you say\nyourself, and then insert the very same alphabet in your book"
    },
    {
      "text": "It\nhas only to avail itself of truth to nature in its composition, and the\nmore perfect the imitation the better the work will be"
    },
    {
      "text": "Win the attention of the wise,\n\n And give the thinker food for thought;\n\nWhoso indites frivolities,\n\n Will but by simpletons be sought"
    },
    {
      "text": "For fooleries preserved in print\n\n Are perpetuity of shame"
    },
    {
      "text": "If that thy roof be made of glass,\n\nIt shows small wit to pick up stones\n\n To pelt the people as they pass"
    },
    {
      "text": "He was not\nat all easy about the wounds which Don Belianis gave and took, because it\nseemed to him that, great as were the surgeons who had cured him, he must\nhave had his face and body covered all over with seams and scars"
    },
    {
      "text": "His fancy grew full of what he used to read about in his books,\nenchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, wooings, loves,\nagonies, and all sorts of impossible nonsense; and it so possessed his\nmind that the whole fabric of invention and fancy he read of was true"
    },
    {
      "text": "a knight-errant without love was like a tree without leaves or fruit,\nor a body without a soul."
    },
    {
      "text": "he\nconsidered, he described accurately his origin and country, and did honour\nto it in taking his surname from it."
    },
    {
      "text": "he believed lay the essence of adventures."
    },
    {
      "text": "everything he saw or imagined\nseemed to him to be and to happen after the fashion of what he read of,"
    },
    {
      "text": "the necessity of adapting that old ballad of Lancelot to the present\noccasion has given you the knowledge of my name altogether prematurely."
    },
    {
      "text": "everyone is the son of his works"
    },
    {
      "text": "if he were again attacked, and\nfelt himself to be dubbed knight, he would not, he thought, leave a soul\nalive in the castle, except such as out of respect he might spare at his\nbidding"
    },
    {
      "text": "there may be Haldudos\nknights"
    },
    {
      "text": "I have only to\ncommand, and he will obey me; and as he has sworn to me by the order of\nknighthood which he has received, I leave him free, and I guarantee the\npayment"
    },
    {
      "text": "He when he found himself alone made another effort to rise; but if\nhe was unable when whole and sound, how was he to rise after having been\nthrashed and well-nigh knocked to pieces?"
    },
    {
      "text": "this was a regular knight-errant’s\nmishap, and entirely, he considered, the fault of his horse"
    },
    {
      "text": "it is as true as\nthat I was born to die, that these accursed books of chivalry he has, and\nhas got into the way of reading so constantly, have upset his reason"
    },
    {
      "text": "He robbed him of a great\ndeal of his natural force, and so do all those who try to turn books\nwritten in verse into another language"
    },
    {
      "text": "His book\nhas some good invention in it, it presents us with something but brings\nnothing to a conclusion"
    },
    {
      "text": "let them be preserved as the richest treasures of poetry that Spain\npossesses"
    },
    {
      "text": "the innocent suffer for the guilty"
    },
    {
      "text": "many go for wool and come back shorn"
    },
    {
      "text": "ere they shear me I shall have plucked away and stripped off\nthe beards of all who dare to touch only the tip of a hair of mine"
    },
    {
      "text": "things and chances fall to the lot of such knights in ways so\nunexampled and unexpected"
    },
    {
      "text": "knights-errant are not permitted to complain of any\nwound, even though their bowels be coming out through it"
    },
    {
      "text": "mother is history, rival of time, storehouse of\ndeeds, witness for the past, example and counsel for the present, and\nwarning for the future"
    },
    {
      "text": "adventures of islands, but of\ncross-roads, in which nothing is got except a broken head or an ear the\nless"
    },
    {
      "text": "greater secrets I mean to teach\nthee and greater favours to bestow upon thee"
    },
    {
      "text": "if an island should fail, there is the\nkingdom of Denmark, or of Sobradisa, which will fit thee as a ring fits\nthe finger"
    },
    {
      "text": "no history can be bad so long\nas it is true"
    },
    {
      "text": "it is the glory of knights-errant to go without\neating for a month, and even when they do eat, that it should be of what\ncomes first to hand"
    },
    {
      "text": "it is plain too that, wandering as\nthey did the most part of their lives through woods and wilds and without\na cook, their most usual fare would be rustic viands"
    },
    {
      "text": "it levels all"
    },
    {
      "text": "what I eat in my corner without form or fuss has much more\nrelish for me, even though it be bread and onions, than the turkeys of\nthose other tables where I am forced to chew slowly, drink little, wipe my\nmouth every minute, and cannot sneeze or cough if I want"
    },
    {
      "text": "him who\nhumbleth himself God exalteth"
    },
    {
      "text": "Fraud, deceit, or\nmalice had then not yet mingled with truth and sincerity"
    },
    {
      "text": "Justice held her\nground, undisturbed and unassailed by the efforts of favour and of\ninterest, that now so much impair, pervert, and beset her"
    },
    {
      "text": "the order of knights-errant was\ninstituted, to defend maidens, to protect widows and to succour the\norphans and the needy"
    },
    {
      "text": "If I ever quit the mountains,\n\n’Twill be in a friar’s gown"
    },
    {
      "text": "parents are\nnot to settle children in life against their will."
    },
    {
      "text": "she flings him from her like\na catapult."
    },
    {
      "text": "her affability and her\nbeauty draw on the hearts of those that associate with her to love her and\nto court her, but her scorn and her frankness bring them to the brink of\ndespair;"
    },
    {
      "text": "easy life, enjoyment, and repose were invented for soft\ncourtiers, but toil, unrest, and arms were invented and made for those\nalone whom the world calls knights-errant,"
    },
    {
      "text": "churchmen in\npeace and quiet pray to Heaven for the welfare of the world, but we\nsoldiers and knights carry into effect what they pray for, defending it\nwith the might of our arms"
    },
    {
      "text": "it is impossible that there\ncould be a knight-errant without a lady, because to such it is as natural\nand proper to be in love as to the heavens to have stars:"
    },
    {
      "text": "He loved deeply, he was hated; he adored, he was scorned; he wooed a wild\nbeast, he pleaded with marble, he pursued the wind, he cried to the\nwilderness, he served ingratitude, and for reward was made the prey of\ndeath"
    },
    {
      "text": "Disdain hath power to kill, and patience dies\n\nSlain by suspicion, be it false or true"
    },
    {
      "text": "Long absence makes of life a dreary void"
    },
    {
      "text": "I am a fire afar off, a sword laid aside"
    },
    {
      "text": "Heaven has made me, so you say, beautiful, and so much so that in spite of\nyourselves my beauty leads you to love me"
    },
    {
      "text": "If I had\nencouraged him, I should be false; if I had gratified him, I should have\nacted against my own better resolution and purpose"
    },
    {
      "text": "Let him who calls me wild beast and basilisk, leave me alone as\nsomething noxious and evil"
    },
    {
      "text": "I neither love nor hate anyone"
    },
    {
      "text": "I count for a hundred"
    },
    {
      "text": "Fortune always leaves a door open in adversity in order to bring relief\nto it,"
    },
    {
      "text": "Wounds received in battle confer honour\ninstead of taking it away;"
    },
    {
      "text": "there is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain\nwhich death does not remove."
    },
    {
      "text": "The elegance of her shape, to be sure, made up for all her defects;"
    },
    {
      "text": "he drew\nher portrait in his imagination with the same features and in the same\nstyle as that which he had seen in his books of the other princesses who,\nsmitten by love, came with all the adornments that are here set down, to\nsee the sorely wounded knight;"
    },
    {
      "text": "I hate keeping things\nlong, and I don’t want them to grow rotten with me from over-keeping."
    },
    {
      "text": "If they don’t let themselves be seen, they let themselves be felt,"
    },
    {
      "text": "as they are invisible and visionary we shall find no\none on whom to avenge ourselves, do what we may"
    },
    {
      "text": "the\nexcellent and ancient usage of knights-errant was not going to be violated\nby him, nor should the squires of such as were yet to come into the world\never complain of him or reproach him with breaking so just a privilege."
    },
    {
      "text": "they were fellows who would not have cared two\nfarthings for Don Quixote, even had he been really one of the\nknights-errant of the Round Table."
    },
    {
      "text": "the best and\nwisest thing, according to my small wits, would be for us to return home,\nnow that it is harvest-time, and attend to our business, and give over\nwandering from Zeca to Mecca and from pail to bucket, as the saying is."
    },
    {
      "text": "the day will come when thou shalt see\nwith thine own eyes what an honourable thing it is to wander in the\npursuit of this calling"
    },
    {
      "text": "it is impossible for good or evil to last for ever; and hence it\nfollows that the evil having lasted long, the good must be now nigh at\nhand"
    },
    {
      "text": "a mouth without teeth is like a mill\nwithout a millstone, and a tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond"
    },
    {
      "text": "the\nlance has never blunted the pen, nor the pen the lance"
    },
    {
      "text": "I am he for whom perils, mighty achievements, and valiant deeds\nare reserved; I am, I say again, he who is to revive the Knights of the\nRound Table, the Twelve of France and the Nine Worthies"
    },
    {
      "text": "fear has sharp eyes, and sees things\nunderground, much more above in heavens"
    },
    {
      "text": "the dead to the grave and the living\nto the loaf"
    },
    {
      "text": "I will act as I think most consistent with my character"
    },
    {
      "text": "What was,\nwas; and may the good that is to come be for all, and the evil for him who\ngoes to look for it"
    },
    {
      "text": "Where one door shuts, another opens"
    },
    {
      "text": "next to parents, masters are to be respected as though they\nwere parents"
    },
    {
      "text": "he loves thee well that\nmakes thee weep"
    },
    {
      "text": "for something is better than nothing"
    },
    {
      "text": "it is the part of noble and generous hearts not to attach importance to\ntrifles"
    },
    {
      "text": "some there be tracing and deriving their descent from kings and\nprinces, whom time has reduced little by little until they end in a point\nlike a pyramid upside down; and others who spring from the common herd and\ngo on rising step by step until they come to be great lords"
    },
    {
      "text": "Never ask as a favour what thou canst take by force"
    },
    {
      "text": "A clear escape is better than good men’s prayers"
    },
    {
      "text": "here is a case for the exercise of my\noffice, to put down force and to succour and help the wretched"
    },
    {
      "text": "Justice, which is the king\nhimself, is not using force or doing wrong to such persons, but punishing\nthem for their crimes."
    },
    {
      "text": "for there is nothing worse than\nsinging under suffering."
    },
    {
      "text": "he who sings once\nweeps all his life."
    },
    {
      "text": "But God is great; patience—there, that’s enough of it."
    },
    {
      "text": "misfortune always persecutes\ngood wit."
    },
    {
      "text": "To be\ngrateful for benefits received is the part of persons of good birth, and\none of the sins most offensive to God is ingratitude;"
    },
    {
      "text": "it is not fitting that honest men\nshould be the instruments of punishment to others, they being therein no way\nconcerned."
    },
    {
      "text": "to do good to boors is to throw water\ninto the sea."
    },
    {
      "text": "to retire is not to flee, and there is no wisdom\nin waiting when danger outweighs hope"
    },
    {
      "text": "it is the part of wise men to\npreserve themselves to-day for to-morrow, and not risk all in one day"
    },
    {
      "text": "the wicked are always\nungrateful, and necessity leads to evildoing"
    },
    {
      "text": "immediate advantage\novercomes all considerations of the future"
    },
    {
      "text": "if we find him, and he happens to be the owner of the money, it is\nplain I must restore it; it would be better, therefore, that without\ntaking this needless trouble, I should keep possession of it until in some\nother less meddlesome and officious way the real owner may be discovered"
    },
    {
      "text": "if we do not see him, the strong\nsuspicion we have as to his being the owner makes us as guilty as if he\nwere so"
    },
    {
      "text": "he was a graceful and gracious youth, and in his courteous and\npolished language showed himself to be of good birth and courtly breeding"
    },
    {
      "text": "for the gifts of fortune can do little to\nrelieve reverses sent by Heaven."
    },
    {
      "text": "for though they\nenforced silence upon our tongues they could not impose it upon our pens,\nwhich can make known the heart’s secrets to a loved one more freely than\ntongues"
    },
    {
      "text": "what I mean is that after\nDon Fernando had enjoyed this peasant girl his passion subsided and his\neagerness cooled, and if at first he feigned a wish to absent himself in\norder to cure his love, he was now in reality anxious to go to avoid\nkeeping his promise."
    },
    {
      "text": "I cannot\nget rid of the idea, nor will anyone in the world remove it, or make me\nthink otherwise—and he would be a blockhead who would hold or\nbelieve anything else than that that arrant knave Master Elisabad made\nfree with Queen Madasima."
    },
    {
      "text": "for I understand them\nbetter than all the world that profess them."
    },
    {
      "text": "the famous Amadis of Gaul was one of the most perfect knights-errant—I\nam wrong to say he was one; he stood alone, the first, the only one, the\nlord of all that were in the world in his time."
    },
    {
      "text": "when a painter desires to\nbecome famous in his art he endeavours to copy the originals of the rarest\npainters that he knows; and the same rule holds good for all the most\nimportant crafts and callings that serve to adorn a state;"
    },
    {
      "text": "the\nknight-errant who shall imitate him most closely will come nearest to\nreaching the perfection of chivalry."
    },
    {
      "text": "the thing is to turn crazy without any provocation, and let my lady\nknow, if I do this in the dry, what I would do in the moist;"
    },
    {
      "text": "no thanks to a knight-errant for going mad when he has\ncause; the thing is to turn crazy without any provocation,"
    },
    {
      "text": "all things\nbelonging to knights-errant seem to be illusions and nonsense and ravings,\nand to go always by contraries?"
    },
    {
      "text": "there is always a swarm of enchanters in attendance upon us that\nchange and alter everything with us, and turn things as they please, and\naccording as they are disposed to aid or destroy us;"
    },
    {
      "text": "two things alone beyond all others are incentives to love, and these are\ngreat beauty and a good name, and these two things are to be found in Dulcinea\nin the highest degree,"
    },
    {
      "text": "I picture her in my\nimagination as I would have her to be, as well in beauty as in condition;"
    },
    {
      "text": "for all I want with Dulcinea del Toboso she is just as good as the most\nexalted princess on earth."
    },
    {
      "text": "for with evil\nfortune like his anything might be apprehended."
    },
    {
      "text": "I have such a bad one that I often forget my own\nname;"
    },
    {
      "text": "surely it will run as if it was in print."
    },
    {
      "text": "Everything is needed for the calling I follow,"
    },
    {
      "text": "I should like thee, I say, to see me stripped to the\nskin and performing a dozen or two of insanities, which I can get done in\nless than half an hour;"
    },
    {
      "text": "for I will try not to go\nfar from this neighbourhood, and I will even take care to mount the\nhighest of these rocks to see if I can discover thee returning;"
    },
    {
      "text": "these will\nserve thee, after the fashion of the clue in the labyrinth of Theseus, as\nmarks and signs for finding me on thy return."
    },
    {
      "text": "Long live the memory of Amadis\nand let him be imitated so far as is possible by Don Quixote of La Mancha,"
    },
    {
      "text": "if he did not\nachieve great things, he died in attempting them;"
    },
    {
      "text": "for those made in notebooks were never accepted or\nhonoured."
    },
    {
      "text": "it could be taken down from him wherever and whenever they liked."
    },
    {
      "text": "since it did not in any way hurt his conscience it would be better to\nleave him in it,"
    },
    {
      "text": "because it will be easier for\nhim as he is more valiant than lettered."
    },
    {
      "text": "If it be, sirs, that you are here with the same design as others have come\nwith, before you proceed with your wise arguments, I entreat you to hear\nthe story of my countless misfortunes, for perhaps when you have heard it\nyou will spare yourselves the trouble you would take in offering\nconsolation to grief that is beyond the reach of it."
    },
    {
      "text": "when misfortunes spring\nfrom the stars, descending from on high they fall upon us with such fury\nand violence that no power on earth can check their course nor human\ndevice stay their coming."
    },
    {
      "text": "What must I do to find a remedy?\n\nDie.\n\nWhat is the lure for love when coy and strange?\n\nChange.\n\nWhat, if all fail, will cure the heart of sadness?\n\nMadness.\n\nIf that be so, it is but folly\n\nTo seek a cure for melancholy:\n\nAsk where it lies; the answer saith\n\nIn Change, in Madness, or in Death."
    },
    {
      "text": "Friendship, return to us, or force the cheat\n\nThat wears it now, thy livery to restore,\n\nBy aid whereof sincerity is slain."
    },
    {
      "text": "If thou wilt not unmask thy counterfeit,\n\nThis earth will be the prey of strife once more,\n\nAs when primæval discord held its reign."
    },
    {
      "text": "But who is there in\nthe world that can boast of having fathomed or understood the wavering\nmind and unstable nature of a woman? Of a truth no one."
    },
    {
      "text": "sudden pain is soon over, but that\nwhich is protracted by tortures is ever slaying without ending life."
    },
    {
      "text": "She by her fickleness\nstrove to make my ruin irretrievable; I will strive to gratify her wishes\nby seeking destruction;"
    },
    {
      "text": "for to them the impossibility of being consoled is itself\na consolation, while to me it is the cause of greater sorrows and\nsufferings"
    },
    {
      "text": "feeble love, little reflection, great ambition, and a craving for rank,\nhad made her forget the words with which she had deceived me"
    },
    {
      "text": "I\nhave no wish for health without Luscinda; and since it is her pleasure to\nbe another’s, when she is or should be mine, let it be mine to be a prey\nto misery when I might have enjoyed happiness."
    },
    {
      "text": "the younger heir to I know not what, unless it be the treachery\nof Vellido and the falsehood of Ganelon."
    },
    {
      "text": "I was the mirror in which they beheld themselves, the staff of their old\nage, and the object in which, with submission to Heaven, all their wishes\ncentred,"
    },
    {
      "text": "music soothes the troubled mind and relieves weariness of spirit."
    },
    {
      "text": "I am your vassal, but I am not your slave; your\nnobility neither has nor should have any right to dishonour or degrade my\nhumble birth;"
    },
    {
      "text": "if fortune had left her any blessing it was\ncourage to bear whatever calamity might fall upon her,"
    },
    {
      "text": "one evil calls\nup another and the end of one misfortune is apt to be the beginning of one\nstill greater,"
    },
    {
      "text": "fortune does not always supply a remedy in cases of difficulty"
    },
    {
      "text": "I had rather banish myself from their sight for\never than look them in the face with the reflection that they beheld mine\nstripped of that purity they had a right to expect in me"
    },
    {
      "text": "fate would not rid me of it, contenting itself with robbing me of my\nreason, perhaps to preserve me for the good fortune I have had in meeting\nyou"
    },
    {
      "text": "I\nswear to you by the faith of a gentleman and a Christian not to desert you\nuntil I see you in possession of Don Fernando"
    },
    {
      "text": "in delay there is apt to be danger"
    },
    {
      "text": "What is it to me if my vassals are\nblacks? What more have I to do than make a cargo of them and carry them to\nSpain, where I can sell them and get ready money for them"
    },
    {
      "text": "It only\nconcerns them to aid them as persons in need of help, having regard to\ntheir sufferings and not to their rascalities."
    },
    {
      "text": "She\nfights in me and conquers in me, and I live and breathe in her, and owe my\nlife and being to her."
    },
    {
      "text": "for the pitcher goes so often to the well—I need say no more to thee."
    },
    {
      "text": "and if the truth is to be\ntold, I like them both; though I have never seen the lady Dulcinea."
    },
    {
      "text": "a sparrow in the hand is better than\na vulture on the wing"
    },
    {
      "text": "he who has the good to his hand and chooses the\nbad, that the good he complains of may not come to him"
    },
    {
      "text": "there is no clown who will keep his word if he\nfinds it will not suit him to keep it"
    },
    {
      "text": "we squires to knights-errant have to bear a\ngreat deal of hunger and hard fortune, and even other things more easily\nfelt than told"
    },
    {
      "text": "if you ever meet me again, though you may see them cutting me to pieces,\ngive me no aid or succour, but leave me to my misfortune"
    },
    {
      "text": "friends’ houses ought not to be visited after marriage\nwith the same frequency as in their masters’ bachelor days"
    },
    {
      "text": "a married man’s honour is a thing of such delicacy that\nit is held liable to injury from brothers, much more from friends"
    },
    {
      "text": "every married man should\nhave some friend who would point out to him any negligence he might be\nguilty of in his conduct"
    },
    {
      "text": "though his integrity and reputation might bridle slanderous tongues, still\nhe was unwilling to hazard either his own good name or that of his friend"
    },
    {
      "text": "I am the\nmost discontented and dissatisfied man in the whole world; for, I know not\nhow long since, I have been harassed and oppressed by a desire so strange\nand so unusual"
    },
    {
      "text": "I would confide\nit to thy safe keeping, feeling sure that by this means, and by thy\nreadiness as a true friend to afford me relief, I shall soon find myself\nfreed from the distress it causes me"
    },
    {
      "text": "a woman is virtuous only in proportion as she is or is not tempted"
    },
    {
      "text": "she alone is strong who does not yield to the promises, gifts,\ntears, and importunities of earnest lovers"
    },
    {
      "text": "I do not therefore hold her\nwho is virtuous through fear or want of opportunity in the same estimation\nas her who comes out of temptation and trial with a crown of victory"
    },
    {
      "text": "if she remains intact she cannot rise to a higher value\nthan she now possesses; and if she give way and be unable to resist,\nbethink thee now how thou wilt be deprived of her"
    },
    {
      "text": "Remember there is no jewel in the world so precious as a\nchaste and virtuous woman, and that the whole honour of women consists in\nreputation"
    },
    {
      "text": "he\nmust not put before her the mire of the gifts and attentions of\npersevering lovers, because perhaps—and even without a perhaps—she\nmay not have sufficient virtue and natural strength in herself to pass\nthrough and tread under foot these impediments"
    },
    {
      "text": "A virtuous woman, too, is like a mirror, of clear shining crystal,\nliable to be tarnished and dimmed by every breath that touches it. She\nmust be treated as relics are; adored, not touched."
    },
    {
      "text": "Breaking is an easy matter,\n\n And it’s folly to expose\n\n What you cannot mend to blows;\n\nWhat you can’t make whole to shatter."
    },
    {
      "text": "as the pain of the foot or any\nmember of the body is felt by the whole body, because all is one flesh, as\nthe head feels the hurt to the ankle without having caused it, so the\nhusband, being one with her, shares the dishonour of the wife"
    },
    {
      "text": "for he being the angel of darkness transforms himself\ninto an angel of light, and, under cover of a fair seeming, discloses\nhimself at length, and effects his purpose if at the beginning his wiles\nare not discovered."
    },
    {
      "text": "Unhappy, shortsighted Anselmo, what art thou doing, what art thou\nplotting, what art thou devising? Bethink thee thou art working against\nthyself, plotting thine own dishonour, devising thine own ruin."
    },
    {
      "text": "If, then, the mine\nof her honour, beauty, virtue, and modesty yields thee without labour all\nthe wealth it contains and thou canst wish for, why wilt thou dig the\nearth in search of fresh veins, of new unknown treasure, risking the\ncollapse of all, since it but rests on the feeble props of her weak\nnature?"
    },
    {
      "text": "A clear proof to us that the passion of love is to be\nconquered only by flying from it, and that no one should engage in a\nstruggle with an enemy so mighty; for divine strength is needed to\novercome his human power."
    },
    {
      "text": "Anselmo was completely satisfied by the words of Lothario, and believed\nthem as fully as if they had been spoken by an oracle; nevertheless he\nbegged of him not to relinquish the undertaking, were it but for the sake\nof curiosity and amusement;"
    },
    {
      "text": "for\nwhen a lover praises his lady’s beauty, and charges her with cruelty, he\ncasts no imputation upon her fair name; at any rate, all I can say is that\nyesterday I made a sonnet on the ingratitude of this Chloris, which goes\nthus:"
    },
    {
      "text": "Anselmo praised this second sonnet too, as he had praised the first; and\nso he went on adding link after link to the chain with which he was\nbinding himself and making his dishonour secure; for when Lothario was\ndoing most to dishonour him he told him he was most honoured; and thus\neach step that Camilla descended towards the depths of her abasement, she\nmounted, in his opinion, towards the summit of virtue and fair fame."
    },
    {
      "text": "love,\nas I have heard say, sometimes flies and sometimes walks; with this one it\nruns, with that it moves slowly; some it cools, others it burns; some it\nwounds, others it slays"
    },
    {
      "text": "for love has no better agent for carrying out his designs than\nopportunity; and of opportunity he avails himself in all his feats,\nespecially at the outset"
    },
    {
      "text": "the sins of mistresses entail this mischief among others;\nthey make themselves the slaves of their own servants, and are obliged to\nhide their laxities and depravities"
    },
    {
      "text": "for this\nfurther penalty the erring woman’s sin brings with it, that her honour is\ndistrusted even by him to whose overtures and persuasions she has yielded"
    },
    {
      "text": "as woman has by nature\na nimbler wit than man for good and for evil, though it is apt to fail\nwhen she sets herself deliberately to reason"
    },
    {
      "text": "there is nothing to take care of except to\nanswer me what I shall ask you"
    },
    {
      "text": "Pure I came to him whom\nHeaven bestowed upon me, pure I shall leave him; and at the worst bathed\nin my own chaste blood and in the foul blood of the falsest friend that\nfriendship ever saw in the world"
    },
    {
      "text": "He himself, persuaded he was conducting the instrument of\nhis glory, led home by the hand of him who had been the utter destruction of\nhis good name"
    },
    {
      "text": "the guilt which had\nbeen until then so skilfully concealed was published abroad, and Anselmo\npaid with his life the penalty of his ill-advised curiosity"
    },
    {
      "text": "he became the author of his own dishonour, while he\nbelieved he was insuring his happiness"
    },
    {
      "text": "he felt as though he were losing his\nsenses; and to make all complete on returning to his own house he found it\ndeserted and empty, not one of all his servants, male or female, remaining\nin it"
    },
    {
      "text": "He reviewed his position, and saw\nhimself in a moment left without wife, friend, or servants, abandoned, he\nfelt, by the heaven above him, and more than all robbed of his honour"
    },
    {
      "text": "This was the end of all three, an end that\ncame of a thoughtless beginning."
    },
    {
      "text": "true nobility consists in\nvirtue"
    },
    {
      "text": "if thou art wanting in that, refusing me what in justice thou\nowest me, then even I have higher claims to nobility than thine."
    },
    {
      "text": "when the potent sway of passion asserts itself, so long\nas there be no mixture of sin in it, he is not to be blamed who gives way\nto it."
    },
    {
      "text": "if thou wilt not have me for what I am, thy true and\nlawful wife, at least take and accept me as thy slave"
    },
    {
      "text": "whether thou wilt, or wilt\nnot, I am thy wife"
    },
    {
      "text": "let not\nthis open manifestation rouse thy anger; but rather so calm it as to allow\nthese two lovers to live in peace and quiet without any interference from\nthee"
    },
    {
      "text": "may she live in peace and contentment as\nmany happy years with her Cardenio, as on my knees I pray Heaven to allow\nme to live with my Dorothea"
    },
    {
      "text": "This peace is the true end of war;\nand war is only another name for arms."
    },
    {
      "text": "the end of war is peace, and that so far it has the advantage of the end\nof letters"
    },
    {
      "text": "the soul of\nthe warrior, when he has an army, or the defence of a city under his care,\ndid not exert itself as much by mind as by body"
    },
    {
      "text": "the justly earned reward of their\nvirtue"
    },
    {
      "text": "for he is dependent on his miserable pay, which comes late or never, or\nelse on what he can plunder, seriously imperilling his life and\nconscience"
    },
    {
      "text": "for he can easily\nmeasure out on the ground as he likes, and roll himself about in it to his\nheart’s content without any fear of the sheets slipping away from him"
    },
    {
      "text": "by how much do those who have gained by war fall\nshort of the number of those who have perished in it?"
    },
    {
      "text": "for by\nskirts, to say nothing of sleeves, they all find means of support"
    },
    {
      "text": "whatever costs most is valued and\ndeserves to be valued most"
    },
    {
      "text": "for at\nevery step he runs the risk of losing his life"
    },
    {
      "text": "courage and daring the greatest\nthat all the chances of war can show"
    },
    {
      "text": "the soldier’s life is a school in which the niggard becomes\nfree-handed and the free-handed prodigal"
    },
    {
      "text": "Better a king’s crumb than a lord’s\nfavour"
    },
    {
      "text": "I alone was miserable; for, instead of some naval crown that I\nmight have expected had it been in Roman times, on the night that followed that\nfamous day I found myself with fetters on my feet and manacles on my hands"
    },
    {
      "text": "the only sad being among so many filled with joy,\nand the only captive among so many free"
    },
    {
      "text": "so great, as I said, was\nthe cruelty with which he treated them, and the hatred with which they\nhated him"
    },
    {
      "text": "experiment\nproved how easily entrenchments could be made in the desert sand there"
    },
    {
      "text": "for if in the Goletta and in the fort there were barely seven thousand\nsoldiers, how could such a small number, however resolute, sally out and\nhold their own against numbers like those of the enemy?"
    },
    {
      "text": "And how is it\npossible to help losing a stronghold that is not relieved, above all when\nsurrounded by a host of determined enemies in their own country?"
    },
    {
      "text": "for to my mind there is no happiness on earth to compare with recovering\nlost liberty."
    },
    {
      "text": "without giving way to despair I immediately began\nto look out for or conjure up some new hope to support me, however faint\nor feeble it might be."
    },
    {
      "text": "The only one that fared at all well with him\nwas a Spanish soldier, something de Saavedra by name, to whom he never\ngave a blow himself, or ordered a blow to be given, or addressed a hard\nword, although he had done things that will dwell in the memory of the\npeople there for many a year, and all to recover his liberty;"
    },
    {
      "text": "for it is the custom with\nsome renegades, when they intend to return to Christian territory, to\ncarry about them certificates from captives of mark testifying, in\nwhatever form they can, that such and such a renegade is a worthy man who\nhas always shown kindness to Christians, and is anxious to escape on the\nfirst opportunity that may present itself."
    },
    {
      "text": "I know not how to go. I have seen many Christians, but except\nthyself none has seemed to me to be a gentleman. I am young and beautiful,\nand have plenty of money to take with me."
    },
    {
      "text": "As to what thou sayest, that if thou dost reach the land of the\nChristians thou wilt be my wife, I give thee my promise upon it as a good\nChristian; and know that the Christians keep their promises better than\nthe Moors."
    },
    {
      "text": "recovered liberty and the dread of losing it again efface from the memory\nall the obligations in the world."
    },
    {
      "text": "the beauty of\nsome women has its times and its seasons, and is increased or diminished by\nchance causes; and naturally the emotions of the mind will heighten or impair\nit, though indeed more frequently they totally destroy it."
    },
    {
      "text": "she told me afterwards her father valued them at ten thousand doubloons,\nand those she had on her wrists were worth as much more."
    },
    {
      "text": "she, who is now mistress of me only, was mistress\nof all this."
    },
    {
      "text": "she only meant that the Turks should go, not thou; or that it\nwas time for thee to look for thy herbs."
    },
    {
      "text": "She is here of her own free will, as glad, I imagine, to\nfind herself in this position as he who escapes from darkness into the\nlight, from death to life, and from suffering to glory."
    },
    {
      "text": "A Christian I am, but it is not I who have\nplaced thee in this position, for it never was my wish to leave thee or do\nthee harm, but only to do good to myself."
    },
    {
      "text": "The\ndesires, however, of those people do not go beyond money, but of that\ntheir covetousness is insatiable, and on this occasion it was carried to\nsuch a pitch that they would have taken even the clothes we wore as\ncaptives if they had been worth anything to them."
    },
    {
      "text": "such is the delight of recovering lost liberty."
    },
    {
      "text": "The patience with which she endures the hardships that\npoverty brings with it, and the eagerness she shows to become a Christian,\nare such that they fill me with admiration, and bind me to serve her all\nmy life"
    },
    {
      "text": "the worth and wisdom that your brother’s bearing shows him to\npossess do not make it likely that he will prove haughty or insensible, or\nthat he will not know how to estimate the accidents of fortune at their\nproper value"
    },
    {
      "text": "that I could\nbring news to our old father that thou art alive, even wert thou in the\ndeepest dungeon of Barbary; for his wealth and my brother’s and mine would\nrescue thee thence"
    },
    {
      "text": "They told each other in a few words the events of their lives;\nthey showed the true affection of brothers in all its strength"
    },
    {
      "text": "I know not where the haven lies,\n\nI dare not hope to gain it"
    },
    {
      "text": "But over-cautious prudery,\n\nAnd coyness cold and cruel,\n\nWhen most I need it, these, like clouds,\n\nIts longed-for light refuse me."
    },
    {
      "text": "it being a settled point with knights-errant that\nwhen they have tried an adventure, and have not succeeded in it, it is a\nsign that it is not reserved for them but for others, and that therefore\nthey need not try it again."
    },
    {
      "text": "She knows nothing\nmore of my passion than what she may have learned from having sometimes\nseen from a distance that my eyes were filled with tears."
    },
    {
      "text": "For her I left my father’s house, and\nfor her I assumed this disguise, to follow her whithersoever she may go,\nas the arrow seeks its mark or the sailor the pole-star."
    },
    {
      "text": "time has more power to alter and\nchange things, than human will."
    },
    {
      "text": "such transformations\nwill take place in adventures of chivalry."
    },
    {
      "text": "Perhaps as you are not dubbed knights\nlike myself, the enchantments of this place have nothing to do with you,\nand your faculties are unfettered, and you can see things in this castle\nas they really and truly are, and not as they appear to me."
    },
    {
      "text": "Unless, indeed, this is a deliberate\njoke, I cannot bring myself to believe that men so intelligent as those\npresent are, or seem to be, can venture to declare and assert that this is\nnot a basin, and that not a pack-saddle;"
    },
    {
      "text": "diligence is the mother of good fortune"
    },
    {
      "text": "quickness and activity forestall the devices of the enemy, and win the\nvictory before the foe has time to defend himself"
    },
    {
      "text": "in delay there is danger"
    },
    {
      "text": "let us depart at once in quest of fair fortune"
    },
    {
      "text": "everything in this castle is done by means of enchantment"
    },
    {
      "text": "virtue is of\nherself so mighty, that, in spite of all the magic that Zoroaster its\nfirst inventor knew, she will come victorious out of every trial, and shed\nher light upon the earth as the sun does upon the heavens."
    },
    {
      "text": "After all, where envy reigns virtue cannot live, and\nwhere there is niggardliness there can be no liberality."
    },
    {
      "text": "Each of us is the son of his own\nworks; and being a man I may come to be pope, not to say governor of an\nisland, especially as my master may win so many that he will not know whom\nto give them to."
    },
    {
      "text": "Mind how you talk, master barber; for shaving is not\neverything, and there is some difference between Peter and Peter."
    },
    {
      "text": "fiction is all\nthe better the more it looks like truth, and gives the more pleasure the\nmore probability and possibility there is about it."
    },
    {
      "text": "Plots in fiction\nshould be wedded to the understanding of the reader, and be constructed in\nsuch a way that, reconciling impossibilities, smoothing over difficulties,\nkeeping the mind on the alert, they may surprise, interest, divert, and\nentertain, so that wonder and delight joined may keep pace one with the\nother;"
    },
    {
      "text": "for the unrestricted range of these\nbooks enables the author to show his powers, epic, lyric, tragic, or\ncomic, and all the moods the sweet and winning arts of poesy and oratory\nare capable of"
    },
    {
      "text": "if those that are now in vogue,\nas well those that are pure invention as those founded on history, are,\nall or most of them, downright nonsense and things that have neither head\nnor tail, and yet the public listens to them with delight, and regards and\ncries them up as perfection when they are so far from it"
    },
    {
      "text": "the same end would be, beyond all comparison, better attained by means of\ngood plays than by those that are not so"
    },
    {
      "text": "I know and feel that I am enchanted, and that is\nenough to ease my conscience; for it would weigh heavily on it if I\nthought that I was not enchanted, and that in a faint-hearted and cowardly\nway I allowed myself to lie in this cage, defrauding multitudes of the\nsuccour I might afford to those in need and distress,"
    },
    {
      "text": "For myself I can say that since I have\nbeen a knight-errant I have become valiant, polite, generous, well-bred,\nmagnanimous, courteous, dauntless, gentle, patient, and have learned to\nbear hardships, imprisonments, and enchantments;"
    },
    {
      "text": "the poor man is incapacitated from showing the virtue of generosity to\nanyone, though he may possess it in the highest degree; and gratitude that\nconsists of disposition only is a dead thing, just as faith without works\nis dead."
    },
    {
      "text": "if\nthis be wanting in the beginning, the middle and the end will always go\nwrong; and God as commonly aids the honest intentions of the simple as he\nfrustrates the evil designs of the crafty."
    },
    {
      "text": "for there are no\nlocks, or guards, or bolts that can protect a young girl better than her\nown modesty."
    },
    {
      "text": "I do not mean that they ought to leave them to make a\nchoice of what is contemptible and bad, but that they should place before\nthem what is good and then allow them to make a good choice as they\nplease."
    },
    {
      "text": "The wealth of the father and the beauty of the daughter led\nmany neighbours as well as strangers to seek her for a wife; but he, as\none might well be who had the disposal of so rich a jewel, was perplexed\nand unable to make up his mind to which of her countless suitors he should\nentrust her."
    },
    {
      "text": "The peasant folk,\nwho are naturally malicious, and when they have nothing to do can be\nmalice itself, remarked all this, and took note of his finery and\njewellery, piece by piece, and discovered that he had three suits of\ndifferent colours, with garters and stockings to match; but he made so\nmany arrangements and combinations out of them, that if they had not\ncounted them, anyone would have sworn that he had made a display of more\nthan ten suits of clothes and twenty plumes."
    },
    {
      "text": "The fame of her beauty began to spread abroad through all\nthe villages around—but why do I say the villages around, merely,\nwhen it spread to distant cities, and even made its way into the halls of\nroyalty and reached the ears of people of every class, who came from all\nsides to see her as if to see something rare and curious, or some\nwonder-working image?"
    },
    {
      "text": "I follow another, easier,\nand to my mind wiser course, and that is to rail at the frivolity of\nwomen, at their inconstancy, their double dealing, their broken promises,\ntheir unkept pledges, and in short the want of reflection they show in\nfixing their affections and inclinations."
    },
    {
      "text": "But I trust\nin God our Lord that the might of one malignant enchanter may not prove so\ngreat but that the power of another better disposed may prove superior to\nit, and then I promise you my support and assistance, as I am bound to do\nby my profession, which is none other than to give aid to the weak and\nneedy."
    },
    {
      "text": "Those the soldier shows on his\nface and breast are stars that direct others to the heaven of honour and\nambition of merited praise"
    },
    {
      "text": "it is\nnot with grey hairs that one writes, but with the understanding, and that\ncommonly improves with years"
    },
    {
      "text": "he who has shown the greatest longing for him has been the great Emperor\nof China, who wrote me a letter in Chinese a month ago and sent it by a\nspecial courier"
    },
    {
      "text": "I am not\nfit for so long a travel and, besides being ill, I am very much without\nmoney, while Emperor for Emperor and Monarch for Monarch, I have at Naples\nthe great Count of Lemos, who, without so many petty titles of colleges\nand rectorships, sustains me, protects me and does me more favour than I\ncan wish for"
    },
    {
      "text": "let his offence be his punishment,\nwith his bread let him eat it, and there’s an end of it"
    },
    {
      "text": "I take it amiss, too, that he calls me\nenvious, and explains to me, as if I were ignorant, what envy is; for\nreally and truly, of the two kinds there are, I only know that which is\nholy, noble, and high-minded"
    },
    {
      "text": "poverty may cast a cloud over nobility, but cannot\nhide it altogether; and as virtue of itself sheds a certain light, even\nthough it be through the straits and chinks of penury, it wins the esteem\nof lofty and noble spirits"
    },
    {
      "text": "abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued; and\nscarcity, even in the case of what is bad, confers a certain value"
    },
    {
      "text": "comparisons of wit with\nwit, valour with valour, beauty with beauty, birth with birth, are always\nodious and unwelcome"
    },
    {
      "text": "sloth triumphs over energy,\nindolence over exertion, vice over virtue, arrogance over courage, and\ntheory over practice in arms"
    },
    {
      "text": "I say this that\nMaster Basin may know that I understand him"
    },
    {
      "text": "if the naked truth, undisguised by\nflattery, came to the ears of princes, times would be different, and other\nages would be reckoned iron ages more than ours, which I hold to be the\ngolden of these latter days."
    },
    {
      "text": "if the members are obliged to feel the suffering of the head, it\nshould be obliged to feel their sufferings."
    },
    {
      "text": "no leaf on the tree stirs but\nby God’s will."
    },
    {
      "text": "The cleverest character in comedy is\nthe clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one."
    },
    {
      "text": "There is no book so bad but it has something good in it"
    },
    {
      "text": "the\ngreater the fame of the writer, the more closely are they scrutinised."
    },
    {
      "text": "there is a time to attack and a time to retreat"
    },
    {
      "text": "the\nmean of valour lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness"
    },
    {
      "text": "honours change\nmanners"
    },
    {
      "text": "when good luck comes to thee,\ntake it in"
    },
    {
      "text": "The best sauce in the world is hunger, and as the poor are never\nwithout that, they always eat with a relish."
    },
    {
      "text": "a\ndaughter looks better ill married than well whored."
    },
    {
      "text": "he who does not know how to take advantage of luck when it\ncomes to him, has no right to complain if it gives him the go-by;"
    },
    {
      "text": "who covers thee, discovers thee."
    },
    {
      "text": "all things present that our eyes\nbehold, bring themselves before us, and remain and fix themselves on our\nmemory much better and more forcibly than things past."
    },
    {
      "text": "The poor gentleman has no way of showing\nthat he is a gentleman but by virtue, by being affable, well-bred,\ncourteous, gentle-mannered, and kindly, not haughty, arrogant, or\ncensorious, but above all by being charitable;"
    },
    {
      "text": "the possessor of wealth is not made happy by\npossessing it, but by spending it, and not by spending as he pleases, but\nby knowing how to spend it well."
    },
    {
      "text": "the path of virtue is very narrow,\nand the road of vice broad and spacious; I know their ends and goals are\ndifferent, for the broad and easy road of vice ends in death, and the\nnarrow and toilsome one of virtue in life, and not transitory life, but in\nthat which has no end;"
    },
    {
      "text": "He is only breaking out at the door of his madness"
    },
    {
      "text": "death is deaf, and when it comes to knock at\nour life’s door, it is always urgent"
    },
    {
      "text": "a good hope is better than a bad holding"
    },
    {
      "text": "if the\npigeon-house does not lack food, it will not lack pigeons"
    },
    {
      "text": "nothing in life makes knights-errant more valorous than finding themselves\nfavoured by their ladies"
    },
    {
      "text": "any beam of the sun of her beauty that reaches my eyes will\ngive light to my reason and strength to my heart"
    },
    {
      "text": "naked was I born, naked I find\nmyself, I neither lose nor gain"
    },
    {
      "text": "the desire of acquiring fame\nis a very powerful motive."
    },
    {
      "text": "the work of fame\nthat mortals desire as a reward and a portion of the immortality their\nfamous deeds deserve"
    },
    {
      "text": "a fame that, however long it may last, must after\nall end with the world itself, which has its own appointed end."
    },
    {
      "text": "the truth may run fine but will not break, and\nalways rises above falsehood as oil above water"
    },
    {
      "text": "with lovers the outward actions and\nmotions they give way to when their loves are in question are the faithful\nmessengers that carry the news of what is going on in the depths of their\nhearts."
    },
    {
      "text": "a stout heart breaks bad luck, and that where there are no fletches\nthere are no pegs"
    },
    {
      "text": "Well, there’s\nremedy for everything except death, under whose yoke we have all to pass,\nwhether we like it or not, when life’s finished."
    },
    {
      "text": "Tell me what company thou keepest, and I’ll\ntell thee what thou art,"
    },
    {
      "text": "Not with whom\nthou art bred, but with whom thou art fed."
    },
    {
      "text": "What the devil is this? What weakness is this? Are we here or in France?\nThe devil fly away with all the Dulcineas in the world; for the well-being\nof a single knight-errant is of more consequence than all the enchantments\nand transformations on earth."
    },
    {
      "text": "one must touch with the hand what appears to\nthe eye, if illusions are to be avoided."
    },
    {
      "text": "he is the best physician for these and greater ailments."
    },
    {
      "text": "I\nalone am to blame for her misfortune and hard fate; her calamity has come\nof the hatred the wicked bear me."
    },
    {
      "text": "against sops from the brook, and plenty of them, there is no defensive\narmour in the world, except to stow oneself away under a brass bell"
    },
    {
      "text": "it is rashness, and not valour, for a\nsingle man to attack an army that has Death in it"
    },
    {
      "text": "the accessories of the drama should be real, instead of being\nmere fictions and semblances, like the drama itself"
    },
    {
      "text": "when life ends, death strips them all\nof the garments that distinguish one from the other, and all are equal in\nthe grave"
    },
    {
      "text": "your worship’s conversation has been the dung that has fallen on the\nbarren soil of my dry wit, and the time I have been in your service and\nsociety has been the tillage"
    },
    {
      "text": "men have received many\nlessons from beasts, and learned many important things"
    },
    {
      "text": "the\nills arising from well-bestowed affections should be esteemed favours\nrather than misfortunes"
    },
    {
      "text": "the cares of others kill the ass"
    },
    {
      "text": "madness will have more followers and\nhangers-on than sound sense"
    },
    {
      "text": "if the blind lead the blind, both are in danger of falling into the\npit."
    },
    {
      "text": "for those who seek adventures don’t always find good ones."
    },
    {
      "text": "The more the vanquished hath of fair renown,\n\nThe greater glory gilds the victor’s crown."
    },
    {
      "text": "let each look out for the arrow—though the surer way would be to let\neveryone’s anger sleep, for nobody knows the heart of anyone, and a\nman may come for wool and go back shorn;"
    },
    {
      "text": "God gave his blessing to peace\nand his curse to quarrels;"
    },
    {
      "text": "a\nman may come for wool and go back shorn;"
    },
    {
      "text": "The difference between the two sorts of\nmadmen is, that he who is so will he nil he, will be one always, while he\nwho is so of his own accord can leave off being one whenever he likes."
    },
    {
      "text": "it is easy enough to plan and set\nabout an enterprise, but it is often a difficult matter to come well out\nof it."
    },
    {
      "text": "I have left my home, I have mortgaged my estate, I\nhave given up my comforts, and committed myself to the arms of Fortune, to\nbear me whithersoever she may please."
    },
    {
      "text": "I hear mass every day; I share my\nsubstance with the poor, making no display of good works, lest I let\nhypocrisy and vainglory, those enemies that subtly take possession of the\nmost watchful heart, find an entrance into mine."
    },
    {
      "text": "learning\nwithout virtue is a pearl on a dunghill"
    },
    {
      "text": "Children, señor, are portions of\ntheir parents’ bowels, and therefore, be they good or bad, are to be\nloved as we love the souls that give us life"
    },
    {
      "text": "Poetry, gentle sir, is, as I take it, like a tender young maiden of\nsupreme beauty, to array, bedeck, and adorn whom is the task of several other\nmaidens, who are all the rest of the sciences"
    },
    {
      "text": "art does not surpass nature, but only brings it to perfection; and thus, nature\ncombined with art, and art with nature, will produce a perfect poet"
    },
    {
      "text": "He who is prepared has his battle half fought"
    },
    {
      "text": "valour that trenches upon temerity savours rather of\nmadness than of courage"
    },
    {
      "text": "if his adversary does not come, on him lies the disgrace,\nand he who waits for him carries off the crown of victory"
    },
    {
      "text": "The enchanters may be able to rob me of good fortune, but of fortitude and\ncourage they cannot."
    },
    {
      "text": "it is easier for a rash\nman to prove truly valiant than for a coward to rise to true valour"
    },
    {
      "text": "in attempting adventures it is better to lose\nby a card too many than by a card too few"
    },
    {
      "text": "to seek these, to\nattack those, and to vanquish all, are in truth his main duties"
    },
    {
      "text": "the majority of the world are of opinion that\nthere never were any knights-errant in it"
    },
    {
      "text": "sloth and indolence,\ngluttony and luxury are triumphant"
    },
    {
      "text": "if you wish to spare yourself fatigue and toil in reaching the\ninaccessible summit of the temple of fame, you have nothing to do but to\nturn aside out of the somewhat narrow path of poetry and take the still\nnarrower one of knight-errantry"
    },
    {
      "text": "no fathers or mothers ever think their own children ill-favoured, and this\nsort of deception prevails still more strongly in the case of the children\nof the brain."
    },
    {
      "text": "wealth can solder a great many flaws."
    },
    {
      "text": "love and fancy easily blind the eyes of the judgment,\nso much wanted in choosing one’s way of life;"
    },
    {
      "text": "The companionship\nof one’s wife is no article of merchandise, that, after it has been\nbought, may be returned, or bartered, or changed; for it is an inseparable\naccident that lasts as long as life lasts; it is a noose that, once you\nput it round your neck, turns into a Gordian knot, which, if the scythe of\nDeath does not cut it, there is no untying."
    },
    {
      "text": "God who\ngives the wound gives the salve; nobody knows what will happen; there are\na good many hours between this and to-morrow, and any one of them, or any\nmoment, the house may fall;"
    },
    {
      "text": "love, I have heard say, looks through spectacles that make\ncopper seem gold, poverty wealth, and bleary eyes pearls."
    },
    {
      "text": "strength is overcome\nby skill."
    },
    {
      "text": "On a good\nfoundation you can raise a good building, and the best foundation in the\nworld is money."
    },
    {
      "text": "there are only two families in the world, the Haves and the\nHaven’ts; and she stuck to the Haves"
    },
    {
      "text": "an ass covered with gold looks better than a horse\nwith a pack-saddle"
    },
    {
      "text": "She is no reaper that sleeps out the noontide; at all times she\nis reaping and cutting down, as well the dry grass as the green"
    },
    {
      "text": "She is no reaper that sleeps out the noontide; at all times she\nis reaping and cutting down, as well the dry grass as the green"
    },
    {
      "text": "she devours all and\nis ready for all, and fills her alforjas with people of all sorts, ages,\nand ranks"
    },
    {
      "text": "she\nhas a canine appetite that is never satisfied"
    },
    {
      "text": "the fear of God being the beginning\nof wisdom, thou, who art more afraid of a lizard than of him, knowest so\nmuch"
    },
    {
      "text": "He preaches well who lives well"
    },
    {
      "text": "I know no more theology than that"
    },
    {
      "text": "it naturally stands to reason, that my death\nwill come before thine"
    },
    {
      "text": "she is in no way squeamish, she devours all and\nis ready for all"
    },
    {
      "text": "remember love and war are the same thing, and as in war it is allowable\nand common to make use of wiles and stratagems to overcome the enemy, so\nin the contests and rivalries of love the tricks and devices employed to\nattain the desired end are justifiable, provided they be not to the\ndiscredit or dishonour of the loved object."
    },
    {
      "text": "the poor, if they are persons of virtue and good sense, have those who\nfollow, honour, and uphold them, just as the rich have those who flatter\nand dance attendance on them."
    },
    {
      "text": "love has no greater enemy than hunger and constant want"
    },
    {
      "text": "all the pleasures of this\nlife pass away like a shadow and a dream, or fade like the flower of the\nfield"
    },
    {
      "text": "What I marvel at is, that I know\nit to be as sure as that it is now day, that Durandarte ended his life in\nmy arms, and that, after his death, I took out his heart with my own\nhands"
    },
    {
      "text": "according to naturalists, he who has a large heart is more largely endowed\nwith valour than he who has a small one"
    },
    {
      "text": "I took out your heart as well as I\ncould, not leaving an atom of it in your breast, I wiped it with a lace\nhandkerchief, and I took the road to France with it"
    },
    {
      "text": "all comparisons are\nodious, and there is no occasion to compare one person with another"
    },
    {
      "text": "we are all bound to pay respect\nto the aged, even though they be not knights, but especially to those who\nare, and who are enchanted"
    },
    {
      "text": "The proverb, ‘Tell me what company thou keepest and I’ll\ntell thee what thou art,’ is to the point here"
    },
    {
      "text": "that which is called\nneed is to be met with everywhere, and penetrates all quarters and reaches\neveryone, and does not spare even the enchanted"
    },
    {
      "text": "I am grieved to the heart because of her distresses, and wish I was a\nFucar to remedy them, and that I would have her know that I cannot be, and\nought not be, in health while deprived of the happiness of seeing her"
    },
    {
      "text": "I will make\nthe same to take no rest, and to roam the seven regions of the earth more\nthoroughly than the Infante Don Pedro of Portugal ever roamed them, until\nI have disenchanted her"
    },
    {
      "text": "I cannot convince or persuade myself that everything that is\nwritten in the preceding chapter could have precisely happened to the\nvaliant Don Quixote"
    },
    {
      "text": "if,\nthen, this adventure seems apocryphal, it is no fault of mine; and so,\nwithout affirming its falsehood or its truth, I write it down"
    },
    {
      "text": "at the\nworst the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the open\nsinner"
    },
    {
      "text": "not to let your mind dwell on the adverse\nchances that may befall you; for the worst of all is death, and if it be a\ngood death, the best of all is to die"
    },
    {
      "text": "it is better for the soldier to smell of gunpowder than of\ncivet"
    },
    {
      "text": "it is not right to deal with them\nafter the fashion of those who set free and get rid of their black slaves\nwhen they are old and useless, and, turning them out of their houses under\nthe pretence of making them free, make them slaves to hunger"
    },
    {
      "text": "there is nothing on earth\nmore honourable or profitable than serving, first of all God, and then one’s\nking and natural lord"
    },
    {
      "text": "those founded by arms have I know not what\nsuperiority over those founded by letters, and a certain splendour\nbelonging to them that distinguishes them above all"
    },
    {
      "text": "time, that discloses all things, leaves nothing that it does not\ndrag into the light of day, though it be buried in the bosom of the earth."
    },
    {
      "text": "Are there not almost every day a\nthousand comedies represented all round us full of thousands of\ninaccuracies and absurdities, and, for all that, they have a successful\nrun, and are listened to not only with applause, but with admiration and\nall the rest of it?"
    },
    {
      "text": "Go on, boy, and don’t mind; for so long as I\nfill my pouch, no matter if I show as many inaccuracies as there are motes\nin a sunbeam."
    },
    {
      "text": "I wish I had here before me now all\nthose who do not or will not believe how useful knights-errant are in the\nworld; just think, if I had not been here present, what would have become\nof the brave Don Gaiferos and the fair Melisendra!"
    },
    {
      "text": "to me everything that has taken place here\nseemed to take place literally, that Melisendra was Melisendra, Don\nGaiferos Don Gaiferos, Marsilio Marsilio, and Charlemagne Charlemagne."
    },
    {
      "text": "the valour which is not based upon a\nfoundation of prudence is called rashness, and the exploits of the rash\nman are to be attributed rather to good fortune than to courage;"
    },
    {
      "text": "When the brave man flees, treachery is manifest and it is for wise men to\nreserve themselves for better occasions."
    },
    {
      "text": "to take them up for trifles and things to laugh at and be amused\nby rather than offended, looks as though he who did so was altogether\nwanting in common sense."
    },
    {
      "text": "to take an unjust revenge (and there\ncannot be any just one) is directly opposed to the sacred law that we\nacknowledge, wherein we are commanded to do good to our enemies and to\nlove them that hate us;"
    },
    {
      "text": "honey\nis not for the mouth of the ass."
    },
    {
      "text": "he who sins and mends commends\nhimself to God."
    },
    {
      "text": "for trees of this kind and others like\nthem always have feet but no hands."
    },
    {
      "text": "this bark is plainly, and without the possibility\nof any alternative, calling and inviting me to enter it"
    },
    {
      "text": "Do as thy\nmaster bids thee, and sit down to table with him"
    },
    {
      "text": "for he who\nwould carry themselves over such longinquous roads and regions would take\ncare to feed them."
    },
    {
      "text": "I don’t understand that logiquous"
    },
    {
      "text": "thou art not bound to\nknow Latin, like some who pretend to know it and don’t."
    },
    {
      "text": "though they\nlook like mills they are not so; I have already told thee that\nenchantments transform things and change their proper shapes"
    },
    {
      "text": "this adventure is doubtless reserved and destined for\nsome other knight."
    },
    {
      "text": "what touched the stock of money\ntouched his heart"
    },
    {
      "text": "pledges don’t\ndistress a good payer"
    },
    {
      "text": "the carelessness of squires is often the cause of worse\naccidents."
    },
    {
      "text": "what we call nature is like a potter that makes vessels of clay, and\nhe who makes one fair vessel can as well make two, or three, or a hundred"
    },
    {
      "text": "drollery and sprightliness, Señor Don Quixote, as you very well know, do\nnot take up their abode with dull wits"
    },
    {
      "text": "many droll\nthings cannot be said in few words"
    },
    {
      "text": "the\nmaster is the more esteemed the more respectable and well-bred his\nservants are"
    },
    {
      "text": "he who falls into the way of being a chatterbox and\ndroll, drops into a wretched buffoon the first time he trips"
    },
    {
      "text": "bridle thy\ntongue, consider and weigh thy words before they escape thy mouth"
    },
    {
      "text": "I despise wealth, but not\nhonour"
    },
    {
      "text": "I have redressed injuries, righted wrongs, punished insolences,\nvanquished giants, and crushed monsters"
    },
    {
      "text": "I am in love, for no other reason\nthan that it is incumbent on knights-errant to be so; but though I am, I\nam no carnal-minded lover, but one of the chaste, platonic sort"
    },
    {
      "text": "Not with whom thou art bred, but with whom thou art fed"
    },
    {
      "text": "the insult comes from one who is capable of offering it, and does so, and\nmaintains it; the offence may come from any quarter without carrying\ninsult."
    },
    {
      "text": "a knight-errant without a lady is like a tree\nwithout leaves, a building without a foundation, or a shadow without the\nbody that causes it."
    },
    {
      "text": "Dulcinea\nis the daughter of her own works, and that virtues rectify blood, and that\nlowly virtue is more to be regarded and esteemed than exalted vice."
    },
    {
      "text": "he who lives a long life must undergo much evil, though to undergo a\nwashing of that sort is pleasure rather than pain."
    },
    {
      "text": "he doubts\neverything and believes everything; when I fancy he is on the point of\ncoming down headlong from sheer stupidity, he comes out with something\nshrewd that sends him up to the skies."
    },
    {
      "text": "it does not\nrequire much cleverness or much learning to be a governor, for there are a\nhundred round about us that scarcely know how to read, and govern like\ngerfalcons."
    },
    {
      "text": "The main point is that they should have good intentions and be\ndesirous of doing right in all things, for they will never be at a loss\nfor persons to advise and direct them in what they have to do,"
    },
    {
      "text": "I am a labouring\nman, my name is Sancho Panza, I am married, I have children, and I am\nserving as a squire; if in any one of these ways I can serve your\nhighness, I will not be longer in obeying than your grace in commanding."
    },
    {
      "text": "I\nhold my master Don Quixote to be stark mad, though sometimes he says\nthings that, to my mind, and indeed everybody’s that listens to him,\nare so wise, and run in such a straight furrow, that Satan himself could\nnot have said them better; but for all that, really, and beyond all\nquestion, it’s my firm belief he is cracked."
    },
    {
      "text": "I can’t\nhelp it, I must follow him; we’re from the same village, I’ve\neaten his bread, I’m fond of him, I’m grateful, he gave me his\nass-colts, and above all I’m faithful; so it’s quite\nimpossible for anything to separate us, except the pickaxe and shovel."
    },
    {
      "text": "I\ninvented all that to escape my master’s scolding, and not with any\nintention of hurting him; and if it has turned out differently, there is a\nGod in heaven who judges our hearts."
    },
    {
      "text": "a\ngood name is better than great riches"
    },
    {
      "text": "one who has been a good\nsquire will be a good governor."
    },
    {
      "text": "no one\nis born ready taught, and the bishops are made out of men and not out of\nstones."
    },
    {
      "text": "I’d as soon stab myself as consent to\nit; for though my master says that in civilities it is better to lose by a\ncard too many than a card too few, when it comes to civilities to asses we\nmust mind what we are about and keep within due bounds."
    },
    {
      "text": "it’s a long step from saying to doing."
    },
    {
      "text": "it’s the tripes that\ncarry the feet and not the feet the tripes"
    },
    {
      "text": "there’s the tail to be skinned yet for him"
    },
    {
      "text": "a stout heart breaks bad\nluck"
    },
    {
      "text": "the tears of beauty in distress\nturn rocks into cotton and tigers into ewes"
    },
    {
      "text": "unless you become softer than a ripe fig, you shall not get\nhold of the government"
    },
    {
      "text": "works of\ncharity done in a lukewarm and half-hearted way are without merit and of\nno avail"
    },
    {
      "text": "covetousness\nbursts the bag"
    },
    {
      "text": "Relief in distress, help in need, protection for damsels, consolation for\nwidows, are to be found in no sort of persons better than in\nknights-errant"
    },
    {
      "text": "he who clipped us has kept the scissors"
    },
    {
      "text": "as much is lost by a card too many as by a card too few"
    },
    {
      "text": "I am in such distress that I shall never be able to\nmake a proper return"
    },
    {
      "text": "if I am not wearying you, that he played the guitar so as to\nmake it speak, and he was, besides, a poet and a great dancer, and he\ncould make birdcages so well, that by making them alone he might have\ngained a livelihood, had he found himself reduced to utter poverty; and\ngifts and graces of this kind are enough to bring down a mountain, not to\nsay a tender young girl."
    },
    {
      "text": "But all his gallantry, wit, and gaiety, all his\ngraces and accomplishments, would have been of little or no avail towards\ngaining the fortress of my pupil, had not the impudent thief taken the\nprecaution of gaining me over first."
    },
    {
      "text": "But that they have not, for Heaven will not suffer so great a\nwrong to Earth, as it would be to pluck unripe the grapes of the fairest\nvineyard on its surface."
    },
    {
      "text": "But where am I wandering to? Woe is me, unfortunate being! What\nmadness or folly leads me to speak of the faults of others, when there is so\nmuch to be said about my own?"
    },
    {
      "text": "it was not\nverses that conquered me, but my own simplicity; it was not music made me\nyield, but my own imprudence; my own great ignorance and little caution opened\nthe way and cleared the path for Don Clavijo’s advances"
    },
    {
      "text": "for according to the rules of my\nmaster here—and he won’t allow me to lie—as of men of\nletters bishops are made, so of gentlemen knights, specially if they be\nerrant, kings and emperors may be made."
    },
    {
      "text": "Would to heaven that he\nhad swept off our heads with his enormous scimitar instead of obscuring\nthe light of our countenances with these wool-combings that cover us!"
    },
    {
      "text": "Oh duennas, companions mine! it was an unlucky moment when we\nwere born and an ill-starred hour when our fathers begot us!"
    },
    {
      "text": "A good joke indeed! I can hardly keep my seat\nupon Dapple, and on a pack-saddle softer than silk itself, and here they’d\nhave me hold on upon haunches of plank without pad or cushion of any sort!"
    },
    {
      "text": "Once more, sirs, I say my master may go alone, and much\ngood may it do him; and I’ll stay here in the company of my lady the\nduchess; and maybe when he comes back, he will find the lady Dulcinea’s\naffair ever so much advanced; for I mean in leisure hours, and at idle\nmoments, to give myself a spell of whipping without so much as a hair to\ncover me."
    },
    {
      "text": "If\nthis charitable work were to be done for the sake of damsels in\nconfinement or charity-girls, a man might expose himself to some\nhardships; but to bear it for the sake of stripping beards off duennas!\nDevil take it! I’d sooner see them all bearded, from the highest to\nthe lowest, and from the most prudish to the most affected."
    },
    {
      "text": "whether we duennas are\ngood or bad, bearded or smooth, we are our mothers’ daughters like\nother women; and as God sent us into the world, he knows why he did, and\non his mercy I rely, and not on anybody’s beard."
    },
    {
      "text": "God bears with the\nwicked, but not for ever."
    },
    {
      "text": "rewards\nand favours of that sort are reserved for God alone."
    },
    {
      "text": "blood is an inheritance, but virtue an\nacquisition, and virtue has in itself alone a worth that blood does not\npossess."
    },
    {
      "text": "the reputation of the\nstern judge stands not higher than that of the compassionate."
    },
    {
      "text": "though the attributes of God are all equal, to our eyes\nthat of mercy is brighter and loftier than that of justice."
    },
    {
      "text": "diligence is the mother\nof good fortune, and indolence, its opposite, never yet attained the\nobject of an honest ambition."
    },
    {
      "text": "never engage in a dispute about families, at\nleast in the way of comparing them one with another;"
    },
    {
      "text": "heaven\nalways helps good intentions;"
    },
    {
      "text": "there can be no humour without\ndiscretion"
    },
    {
      "text": "I place a barrier between my inclinations\nand my virtue"
    },
    {
      "text": "possess all things as\nthough ye possessed them not"
    },
    {
      "text": "Poor gentleman of good family! always cockering up his\nhonour, dining miserably and in secret"
    },
    {
      "text": "for her I\nam honey, for you aloes"
    },
    {
      "text": "Nature sent me into the world to be hers and\nno other’s"
    },
    {
      "text": "Let worthy Sancho go in peace, and good luck to him, Gentle Reader; and\nlook out for two bushels of laughter"
    },
    {
      "text": "I\nhaven’t got the ‘Don,’ nor has anyone of my family ever\nhad it"
    },
    {
      "text": "God sometimes guides those who\ngovern in their judgments, even though they may be fools"
    },
    {
      "text": "all repletion\nis bad, but that of partridge is the worst of all"
    },
    {
      "text": "simple medicines are more\nesteemed than compound ones, for we cannot go wrong in those that are simple,\nwhile in the compound we may, by merely altering the quantity of the things\ncomposing them"
    },
    {
      "text": "Love that springs up swift and sudden,\n\nHere to-day, to-morrow flown,\n\nPasses, leaves no trace behind it,\n\nLeaves no image on the soul"
    },
    {
      "text": "The quality of all in lovers\n\nMost esteemed is constancy"
    },
    {
      "text": "Modesty’s a marriage portion,\n\nModesty their highest praise"
    },
    {
      "text": "for a trade that does not feed its master is not worth two\nbeans."
    },
    {
      "text": "for it is the tripes that\ncarry the heart and not the heart the tripes."
    },
    {
      "text": "We who govern and we\nwho are judges—are we not men of flesh and blood, and are we not to\nbe allowed the time required for taking rest, unless they’d have us\nmade of marble?"
    },
    {
      "text": "I am not marble, nor are you brass, nor is it now ten o’clock in the\nmorning, but midnight, or a trifle past it I fancy, and we are in a room\nmore secluded and retired than the cave could have been where the\ntreacherous and daring Æneas enjoyed the fair soft-hearted Dido."
    },
    {
      "text": "I require no better protection than my own\ncontinence, and my own sense of propriety; as well as that which is\ninspired by that venerable head-dress;"
    },
    {
      "text": "all except myself, for in my case I give her nothing to eat,\nthanks to Señor Doctor Pedro Recio Tirteafuera here, who would have me die of\nhunger, and declares that death to be life; and the same sort of life may God\ngive him and all his kind—I mean the bad doctors; for the good ones\ndeserve palms and laurels."
    },
    {
      "text": "lazy\nidlers are the same thing in a State as the drones in a hive, that eat up\nthe honey the industrious bees make."
    },
    {
      "text": "I mean to protect the husbandman, to\npreserve to the gentleman his privileges, to reward the virtuous, and\nabove all to respect religion and honour its ministers."
    },
    {
      "text": "for when God sends the dawn, he sends it for all."
    },
    {
      "text": "let us live and eat in peace and\ngood-fellowship, for when God sends the dawn, he sends it for all."
    },
    {
      "text": "I know already, notary, that there is a good deal to be said on\nthat point,"
    },
    {
      "text": "Granted your\nworship may order me to be taken to prison, and to have irons and chains\nput on me, and to be shut up in a cell, and may lay heavy penalties on the\ngaoler if he lets me out, and that he obeys your orders; still, if I don’t\nchoose to sleep, and choose to remain awake all night without closing an\neye, will your worship with all your power be able to make me sleep if I\ndon’t choose?"
    },
    {
      "text": "let me advise you don’t joke with\nthe authorities, because you may come across someone who will bring down\nthe joke on your own skull."
    },
    {
      "text": "ill-placed desires can only be paid for in\nsome such way"
    },
    {
      "text": "the woman and the hen by gadding about are soon lost"
    },
    {
      "text": "she who is\neager to see is also eager to be seen"
    },
    {
      "text": "When they offer thee a heifer, run with a halter;\nwhen they offer thee a government, take it"
    },
    {
      "text": "to make a beginning is everything in luck"
    },
    {
      "text": "don’t\nanswer the strokes of good fortune and the lucky chances that are knocking\nat the door of your house"
    },
    {
      "text": "very often it\nis fitting and necessary for the authority of office to resist the humility of\nthe heart"
    },
    {
      "text": "proclamations that are\nnot observed are the same as if they did not exist"
    },
    {
      "text": "Be a father to virtue and a stepfather to\nvice"
    },
    {
      "text": "Be not always strict, nor yet always lenient, but observe a mean between\nthese two extremes, for in that is the aim of wisdom"
    },
    {
      "text": "when there was any doubt about the justice of a case I should lean to\nmercy"
    },
    {
      "text": "ingratitude is the daughter of pride, and\none of the greatest sins we know of"
    },
    {
      "text": "he who is grateful to those who have\nbeen good to him shows that he will be so to God also"
    },
    {
      "text": "amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas"
    },
    {
      "text": "the presence of the governor is of\ngreat importance in such places; it comforts the prisoners who are in hopes of\na speedy release, it is the bugbear of the butchers who have then to give just\nweight, and it is the terror of the market-women for the same reason"
    },
    {
      "text": "Some days since, valiant knight, I gave you an account of the\ninjustice and treachery of a wicked farmer to my dearly beloved daughter,\nthe unhappy damsel here before you, and you promised me to take her part\nand right the wrong that has been done her"
    },
    {
      "text": "lo and behold suddenly there\ncame in through the door of the great hall two women, as they afterwards\nproved to be, draped in mourning from head to foot"
    },
    {
      "text": "for to expect that my lord the duke\nwill do me justice is to ask pears from the elm tree"
    },
    {
      "text": "the chief\nobject of my profession is to spare the humble and chastise the proud"
    },
    {
      "text": "I hereby for this once waive my privilege of\ngentle blood, and come down and put myself on a level with the lowly birth\nof the wrong-doer"
    },
    {
      "text": "To fancy that in this life anything belonging to it will remain for ever\nin the same state is an idle fancy"
    },
    {
      "text": "Man’s\nlife alone, swifter than time, speeds onward to its end without any hope\nof renewal"
    },
    {
      "text": "I was not born to be a governor or\nprotect islands or cities from the enemies that choose to attack them.\nPloughing and digging, vinedressing and pruning, are more in my way than\ndefending provinces or kingdoms."
    },
    {
      "text": "Saint Peter is very well at Rome;\nI mean each of us is best following the trade he was born to."
    },
    {
      "text": "I know that\nwell-gotten gain may be lost, but ill-gotten gain is lost, itself and its\nowner likewise."
    },
    {
      "text": "We knew not our\ngood fortune until we lost it; and such is the longing we almost all of us\nhave to return to Spain, that most of those who like myself know the\nlanguage, and there are many who do, come back to it and leave their wives\nand children forsaken yonder, so great is their love for it;"
    },
    {
      "text": "for cares have\nvery little sway over us while we are eating and drinking."
    },
    {
      "text": "With bread\nall sorrows are less."
    },
    {
      "text": "man proposes and God disposes"
    },
    {
      "text": "as the occasion, so the\nbehaviour"
    },
    {
      "text": "where one thinks there are flitches,\nthere are no pegs"
    },
    {
      "text": "If a governor comes\nout of his government rich, they say he has been a thief; and if he comes\nout poor, that he has been a noodle and a blockhead."
    },
    {
      "text": "I entered naked, and naked I\nfind myself; I neither lose nor gain."
    },
    {
      "text": "trying to stop slanderers’\ntongues is like trying to put gates to the open plain."
    },
    {
      "text": "for what thou hast to\ngive to the mouse, give to the cat, and it will save thee all trouble."
    },
    {
      "text": "God our Lord has given her, may Saint Peter add his blessing."
    },
    {
      "text": "Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has\nbestowed upon men; no treasures that the earth holds buried or the sea\nconceals can compare with it"
    },
    {
      "text": "for freedom, as for honour, life may and\nshould be ventured"
    },
    {
      "text": "the\nsense of being under an obligation to return benefits and favours received\nis a restraint that checks the independence of the spirit"
    },
    {
      "text": "Happy he, to\nwhom heaven has given a piece of bread for which he is not bound to give\nthanks to any but heaven itself!"
    },
    {
      "text": "love is\ninfluenced by no consideration, recognises no restraints of reason, and is\nof the same nature as death"
    },
    {
      "text": "when it takes entire possession of\na heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it"
    },
    {
      "text": "there are two\nsorts of beauty, one of the mind, the other of the body"
    },
    {
      "text": "and when it is this sort of beauty\nand not that of the body that is the attraction, love is apt to spring up\nsuddenly and violently"
    },
    {
      "text": "it is enough\nfor an honest man not to be a monster to be an object of love, if only he\npossesses the endowments of mind I have mentioned"
    },
    {
      "text": "I was born,\nSancho, to live dying, and thou to die eating"
    },
    {
      "text": "let me tell you, señor, there’s no\ngreater folly than to think of dying of despair as your worship does"
    },
    {
      "text": "I’ll stretch out my life by eating until it reaches the end\nheaven has fixed for it"
    },
    {
      "text": "he goes wrong and departs from the truth in the most important part of the\nhistory"
    },
    {
      "text": "his motto is constancy, and his profession to\nmaintain the same with his life and never wrong it"
    },
    {
      "text": "he\ntreated it as read and pronounced it utterly silly; and, if by any chance\nit should come to its author’s ears that he had it in his hand, he\ndid not want him to flatter himself with the idea that he had read it; for\nour thoughts, and still more our eyes, should keep themselves aloof from\nwhat is obscene and filthy."
    },
    {
      "text": "if it is the condition of the remedy that Sancho shall\nreceive three thousand and odd lashes, what does it matter to me whether\nhe inflicts them himself, or someone else inflicts them, when the\nessential point is that he receives them, let them come from whatever\nquarter they may?"
    },
    {
      "text": "heaven by strange\ncircuitous ways, mysterious and incomprehensible to man, raises up the\nfallen and makes rich the poor."
    },
    {
      "text": "O furious force\nof jealousy, to what desperate lengths dost thou lead those that give thee\nlodging in their bosoms!"
    },
    {
      "text": "From what I have seen here, justice is\nsuch a good thing that there is no doing without it, even among the\nthieves themselves."
    },
    {
      "text": "What\nled me into it was a certain thirst for vengeance, which is strong enough\nto disturb the quietest hearts."
    },
    {
      "text": "as one depth calls to another, and\none sin to another sin, revenges have linked themselves together"
    },
    {
      "text": "the beginning\nof health lies in knowing the disease and in the sick man’s\nwillingness to take the medicines which the physician prescribes"
    },
    {
      "text": "sinners of\ndiscernment are nearer amendment than those who are fools"
    },
    {
      "text": "as\nfire cannot be hidden or kept secret, virtue cannot escape being\nrecognised"
    },
    {
      "text": "to advise this good man is to kick against the pricks"
    },
    {
      "text": "there’s many a man would rather\nundertake to kill a giant than cut a caper."
    },
    {
      "text": "That answer did not need a question;\nfor of course the treatment one receives shows the disposition of him from\nwhom it is received."
    },
    {
      "text": "translation from one language into another, if it be not from\nthe queens of languages, the Greek and the Latin, is like looking at\nFlemish tapestries on the wrong side; for though the figures are visible,\nthey are full of threads that make them indistinct, and they do not show\nwith the smoothness and brightness of the right side"
    },
    {
      "text": "fictions have the more merit and charm about them\nthe more nearly they approach the truth or what looks like it; and true\nstories, the truer they are the better they are"
    },
    {
      "text": "It’s these that are the\nreal chanted things, and not the ones my master talks of."
    },
    {
      "text": "rashness is\nnot valour"
    },
    {
      "text": "it’s a long step from saying to doing"
    },
    {
      "text": "There’s a remedy for everything except death"
    },
    {
      "text": "the sight would have removed all doubt from your mind that there ever has\nbeen or can be a beauty to be compared with hers"
    },
    {
      "text": "live the fame of the lady Dulcinea’s beauty undimmed as ever"
    },
    {
      "text": "she whom commonly they call Fortune is a drunken whimsical jade, and, what\nis more, blind, and therefore neither sees what she does, nor knows whom\nshe casts down or whom she sets up."
    },
    {
      "text": "there is no such thing as Fortune in the world, nor does\nanything which takes place there, be it good or bad, come about by chance,\nbut by the special preordination of heaven; and hence the common saying\nthat ‘each of us is the maker of his own Fortune.’"
    },
    {
      "text": "I have been\nthat of mine; but not with the proper amount of prudence, and my\nself-confidence has therefore made me pay dearly; for I ought to have\nreflected that Rocinante’s feeble strength could not resist the\nmighty bulk of the Knight of the White Moon’s horse."
    },
    {
      "text": "though I lost my honour\nI did not lose nor can I lose the virtue of keeping my word."
    },
    {
      "text": "the fault of the ass must not be laid on the\npack-saddle;"
    },
    {
      "text": "the fat challenger\nprune, peel, thin, trim and correct himself, and take eleven stone of his\nflesh off his body, here or there, as he pleases, and as suits him best;\nand being in this way reduced to nine stone weight, he will make himself\nequal and even with nine stone of his opponent, and they will be able to\nrun on equal terms."
    },
    {
      "text": "he owes no man anything; he pays\nfor everything, particularly when the coin is madness."
    },
    {
      "text": "A knight may very possibly be proof against love; but it is\nimpossible, strictly speaking, for him to be ungrateful."
    },
    {
      "text": "Sleep, I have heard say, has\nonly one fault, that it is like death; for between a sleeping man and a\ndead man there is very little difference."
    },
    {
      "text": "It is the duty of good\nservants to share the sufferings and feel the sorrows of their masters, if\nit be only for the sake of appearances."
    },
    {
      "text": "the thoughts that\nallow one to make verses cannot be of great consequence;"
    },
    {
      "text": "better\na clear escape than good men’s prayers."
    },
    {
      "text": "Not with whom thou art bred, but with\nwhom thou art fed."
    },
    {
      "text": "the wrath of lovers always ends in curses."
    },
    {
      "text": "if eyes don’t see hearts don’t break"
    },
    {
      "text": "She lay with her head resting upon a\ncushion of brocade and crowned with a garland of sweet-smelling flowers of\ndivers sorts, her hands crossed upon her bosom, and between them a branch\nof yellow palm of victory."
    },
    {
      "text": "While fair Altisidora, who the sport\n\n Of cold Don Quixote’s cruelty hath been,\n\nReturns to life, and in this magic court\n\n The dames in sables come to grace the scene,"
    },
    {
      "text": "My soul, from this strait prison-house set free,\n\n As o’er the Stygian lake it floats along,\n\nThy praises singing still shall hold its way,\n\nAnd make the waters of oblivion stay."
    },
    {
      "text": "the happiness we look forward to\nfrom her restoration be no longer deferred."
    },
    {
      "text": "upon this ceremony depends the restoration of Altisidora."
    },
    {
      "text": "I might let myself be handled by all the world; but\nallow duennas to touch me—not a bit of it!"
    },
    {
      "text": "That’s trick upon trick, I\nthink, and not honey upon pancakes; a nice thing it would be for a\nwhipping to come now, on the top of pinches, smacks, and pin-proddings!"
    },
    {
      "text": "God forgive thee, insensible knight, for through thy\ncruelty I have been, to me it seems, more than a thousand years in the\nother world;"
    },
    {
      "text": "I came to the gate, where some dozen or so of devils were playing tennis,\nall in breeches and doublets, with falling collars trimmed with Flemish\nbonelace, and ruffles of the same that served them for wristbands, with\nfour fingers’ breadth of the arms exposed to make their hands look\nlonger;"
    },
    {
      "text": "If it should be good, faithful, and true, it will have ages of life; but\nif it should be bad, from its birth to its burial will not be a very long\njourney."
    },
    {
      "text": "I was born to belong to Dulcinea del Toboso, and the\nfates, if there are any, dedicated me to her;"
    },
    {
      "text": "All that\nyou have seen to-night has been make-believe; I’m not the woman to\nlet the black of my nail suffer for such a camel, much less die!"
    },
    {
      "text": "for with the callow poets of our day the way is for every one to\nwrite as he pleases and pilfer where he chooses, whether it be germane to\nthe matter or not, and now-a-days there is no piece of silliness they can\nsing or write that is not set down to poetic licence."
    },
    {
      "text": "for a vanquished knight like\nhimself it was fitter he should live in a pig-sty than in a royal palace."
    },
    {
      "text": "She herself has told me that lace is worn in hell;\nand as she must know how to make it, let it never be out of her hands; for\nwhen she is occupied in shifting the bobbins to and fro, the image or\nimages of what she loves will not shift to and fro in her thoughts;"
    },
    {
      "text": "I never in all my life\nsaw a lace-maker that died for love; when damsels are at work their minds\nare more set on finishing their tasks than on thinking of their loves."
    },
    {
      "text": "the mere thought of the cruelty\nwith which this vagabond villain has treated me will suffice to blot him\nout of my memory without any other device"
    },
    {
      "text": "had it been me, i’faith ‘another cock\nwould have crowed to thee.’"
    },
    {
      "text": "I am not sure, however, whether\npayment will comport with the cure, and I would not have the reward\ninterfere with the medicine."
    },
    {
      "text": "the treasures of\nVenice, the mines of Potosi, would be insufficient to pay thee."
    },
    {
      "text": "I\nam Don Quixote of La Mancha, the one that fame speaks of, and not the\nunlucky one that has attempted to usurp my name and deck himself out in my\nideas."
    },
    {
      "text": "I entreat your worship by your devoir as a gentleman to be so good\nas to make a declaration before the alcalde of this village that you never\nin all your life saw me until now, and that neither am I the Don Quixote\nin print in the Second Part, nor this Sancho Panza, my squire, the one\nyour worship knew."
    },
    {
      "text": "comes vanquished by the arm of another, comes\nvictor over himself, which, as he himself has told me, is the greatest\nvictory anyone can desire."
    },
    {
      "text": "the foolishest thing a man can do\nin this life is to let himself die without rhyme or reason, without\nanybody killing him, or any hands but melancholy’s making an end of\nhim."
    },
    {
      "text": "I was mad, now I\nam in my senses; I was Don Quixote of La Mancha, I am now, as I said,\nAlonso Quixano the Good"
    },
    {
      "text": "I feel myself at the\npoint of death, and I would fain meet it in such a way as to show that my\nlife has not been so ill that I should leave behind me the name of a\nmadman"
    },
    {
      "text": "For me alone was Don Quixote born, and I for him; it was his to act, mine\nto write; we two together make but one"
    },
    {
      "text": "Hold off! ye weaklings; hold your hands!\n\nAdventure it let none,\n\nFor this emprise, my lord the king,\n\nWas meant for me alone."
    },
    {
      "text": "my desire has been no other than to deliver over to the\ndetestation of mankind the false and foolish tales of the books of\nchivalry"
    },
    {
      "text": "A crazy man his life he passed,\n\nBut in his senses died at last."
    }
  ]
}