In short, he became so absorbed in his books that he spent his nights from sunset to sunrise, and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used to read about in his books, enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, wooings, loves, agonies, and all sorts of impossible nonsense; and it so possessed his mind that the whole fabric of invention and fancy he read of was true, that to him no history in the world had more reality in it.

After I came down from the sky, and after I looked at the earth from that great height and saw how small it was, the burning desire I had to be a governor cooled a little; where’s the greatness in ruling a mustard seed, or the dignity or pride in governing half a dozen men the size of hazel nuts? It seemed to me that this was all there was on the whole earth.

Busco en la muerte la vida, salud en la enfermedad, en la prisión libertad, en lo cerrado salida y en el traidor lealtad. Pero mi suerte, de quien jamás espero algún bien, con el cielo ha estatuido que, pues lo imposible pido, lo posible aun no me den.

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O Don Quixote, wise as thou art brave,
La Mancha's splendor and of Spain the star!
To thee I say that if the peerless maid,
Dulcinea del Toboso, is to be restored
to the state that was once hers, it needs must be
that thy squire Sancho take on his bared behind,
those sturdy buttocks, must consent to take
three thousand lashes and three hundred more,
and well laid on, that they may sting and smart;
for those are the authors of her woe
have thus resolved, and that is why I've come,
This, gentles, is the word I bring to you.

Seine Ehre kann auch der Arme behalten, nicht aber der Schlechte.

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— Venid acá, gente soez y mal nacida: ¿saltear de caminos llamáis al dar libertad a los encadenados, soltar los presos, acorrer a los miserables, alzar los caídos, remediar los menesterosos? ¡Ah, gente infame

A closed mouth catches no flies.

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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.