In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in… - Miguel de Cervantes

Yaşamda ölümü
Hastalıkta sağlığı arıyorum,
Mahpusta özgürlüğü
Kapalı yerde çıkışı
Hainde ise sadakati.
Fakat kendisinden
asla bir şey beklemediğim talihim
Tanrı'yla anlaşmış ki
İmkansızı isterim diye
Mümkün olanı da vermez bana.

Meanwhile Don Quixote worked upon a farm labourer, a neighbour of his, an honest man (if indeed that title can be given to him who is poor), but with very little wit in his pate. In a word, he so talked him over, and with such persuasions and promises, that the poor clown made up his mind to sally forth with him and serve him as esquire. Don Quixote, among other things, told him he ought to be ready to go with him gladly, because any moment an adventure might occur that might win an island in the twinkling of an eye and leave him governor of it. On these and the like promises Sancho Panza (for so the labourer was called) left wife and children, and engaged himself as esquire to his neighbour.

-Señor- respondió Sancho-, que el retirar no es huir, ni el esperar es cordura, cuando el peligro sobrepuja a la esperanza, y de sabios es guardarse hoy para mañana, y no aventurarse todo en un día.