Capítulo LXVI. Que trata de lo que verá el que lo leyere, o lo oirá el que lo escuchare leer - Miguel de Cervantes

There is no memory that time does not efface, no pain that death does not destroy.

Sucede lo que los médicos dicen del tísico: que al principio su mal es difícil reconocer, pero fácil de curar, mientras que, con el transcurso del tiempo, al no haber sido conocido ni atajado, se vuelve fácil de conocer, pero difícil de curar.

Don Quixote promised, in the name of all the others, not to interrupt, and with this assurance the Ragged One began, saying: “My name is Cardenio;1 my home, one of the finest cities in Andalucía; my family, noble; my parents, wealthy; my misfortune, so great that my parents had to weep and my family grieve, but their wealth could not alleviate it, for worldly possessions can do little to remedy the afflictions sent by heaven.