La folie suprême n'est-elle pas de voir la vie telle qu'elle est et non telle qu'elle devrait être? - Miguel de Cervantes

En conjunto, este era un testimonio indudable de que no podía haber en el mundo una situación más miserable que la mía. Sin embargo, para cada cosa negativa había algo positivo por lo que dar gracias.

"Oh, how our good knight reveled in this speech, and more than ever when he came to think of the name that he should give his lady! As the story goes, there was a very good=looking farm girl who lived near by, with whom he had once been smitten, although it is generally believed that she never knew or suspected it. Her name was Aldonza Lorenzo, and it seemed to him that she was the one upon whom he should bestow the title of mistress of his thoughts. For her he wished a name that should not be incongruous with his own and that would convey the suggestion of a princess or a great lady; and, accordingly, he resolved to call her "Dulcinea del Toboso," she being a native of that place. A musical name to his ears, out of the ordinary and significant, like the others he had chosen for himself and his appurtenances."

If a governor comes out of his government rich, they say he has been a thief; and if he comes out poor, that he has been a noodle and a blockhead.