“[W]omen are born with the obligation to obey their husbands even if they're fools.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“...but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“Whether thus adorned she would have been beautiful or not, and what she must have been in her prosperity, may be imagined from the beauty remaining to her after so many hardships; for, as everyone knows, the beauty of some women has its times and its seasons, and is increased or diminished by chance causes; and naturally the emotions of… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share
“To give expression to humour, and write in a strain of graceful pleasantry, is the gift of great geniuses. The cleverest character in comedy… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“Rocinante felt the desire to pleasure himself with the ladies, and as soon as he picked up their scent he abandoned his natural ways… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“If all, or almost all, the plays that are popular now, imaginative works as well as historical ones, are known to be nonsense and without rhyme or reason, and despite this the mob hears them with pleasure and thinks of them and approves of them as good, when they are very far from being so, and the authors who compose… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share
“... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“his wits being quite gone, he hit upon the strangest notion that ever madman in this world hit upon, and that was that he… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“he who does not know how to take advantage of luck when it comes to him, has no right to complain if it gives… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“Ésa es natural condición de mujeres -dijo don Quijote-: desdeñar a quien las quiere y amar a quien las aborrece. Pasa adelante, Sancho.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share
“…que hay dos maneras de hermosura: una del alma y otra del cuerpo; la del alma campea y se muestra en el entendimiento, en… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“But what made him still more fortunate, as he said himself, was having a daughter of such exceeding beauty, rare intelligence, gracefulness, and virtue, that everyone who knew her and beheld her marvelled at the extraordinary gifts with which heaven and nature had endowed her. As a child she was beautiful, she continued to grow in beauty, and at the… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share
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