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cuanto sera mejor no menear el arroz, aunque se pegue.
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take care that your style and diction run musically, pleasantly, and plainly, with clear, proper, and well-placed words, setting forth your purpose to the best of your power, and putting your ideas intelligibly, without confusion or obscurity. Strive, too, that in reading your story the melancholy may be moved to laughter, and the merry made merrier still; that the simple shall not be wearied, that the judicious shall admire the invention, ..
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La vida es una serie de combinaciones que es preciso estudiar y analizar para llegar a mantenerse siempre en buena posicion>>.
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The reason for the unreason to which my reason turns so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of thy beauty. And also when he read:...the heavens on high divinely heighten thy divinity with the stars and make thee deserving of the deserts thy greatness deserves. With these words and phrases the poor gentleman lost his mind, and he spent sleepless nights trying to understand them and extract their meaning, which Aristotle himself, if..
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Well I have him in Italian,' said the barber, 'but I don't understand it.' 'There's no reason you should,' replied the priest, 'and here we would pardon the captain if he had not brought to Spain and translated it into Castillian, for he took away a good deal of its original value, which is what all who attempt to translate books of poetry into another language will do as well: no matter the care they use and the skill they show, they will ..
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Remember everything and do not miss a detail of how she receives you: if her color changes as you give her my message; if she becomes agitated or troubled when she hears my name; if she moves about on her pillows, if you happen to find her in the richly furnished antechamber of her rank; if she is standing, look at her to see if she shifts from one foot to another; if she repeats her answer two or three times; if she changes from gentle to ..
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Don Quixote did not sleep at all that night but thought of his lady Dulcinea, in order to conform to what he had read in his books of knights spending many sleepless nights in groves and meadows, turning all their thoughts to memories of their ladies.
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since printed works are looked at slowly, their faults are easily seen, and the greater the fame of their authors, the more closely they are scrutinized. Men who are famous for their talent, great poets, eminent historians, are always, or almost always, envied by those whose particular pleasure and entertainment is judging other people's writings without ever having brought anything of their own into the light of day.
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be sure to dress him so that you hide what he is and he looks like what he'll become.
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All vices, Sancho, bring with them some kind of delight, but envy brings nothing but vexation, rancor, and rage.
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
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You are the messenger, my friend, and do not deserve the blame.
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Senor, sorrows were made not for animals but for men; but if men feel them too much, they turn into animals...
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Julius Caesar, that valiant Roman emperor, was asked what was the best death, and he responded the one that was unexpected, sudden, and unforeseen...
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be advised, Sancho, that works of charity performed in a lukewarm and halfhearted way have no merit and are worth nothing.
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doing one thing instead of another is the same as lying.
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And it will not matter if it is written in another's hand, because, if I remember correctly, Dulcinea does not know how to read or write, and never in her life has she seen my writing or a letter of mine, because my love and her love have always been platonic, not going beyond a virtuous glance. And even this was so infrequent that I could truly swear that in the twelve years I have loved her more than the light of these eyes that will be c..
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And if I try to reject him with disdain, I can see that if he does not achieve his ends in the proper way, he will use force, and I shall be dishonored and have no excuse when I am blamed by those who do not know how blamelessly I find myself in this situation.
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Possess all things as if you possessed them not...
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Remember that if a man seeks the impossible, the possible may justly be denied him; a poet said it better when he wrote: I search for life in dread death, in fearful disease for health, in dark prison for liberty, escape in a sealed room, in a traitor, loyalty. But my own fate from whom I ne'er hope for the good has with just heaven ruled: if the impossible I demand, for me the possible is banned.
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I'm from the lineage of the Panzas, and they're all stubborn, and if they say odds once, odds it'll be, even if it's evens, no matter what anybody says.
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though I planned to issue a few good laws, I didn't, because I was afraid nobody would obey them, and then it doesn't matter if you issue them or not.
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You should know, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that love shows no restraint, and does not keep within the bounds of reason as it proceeds, and has the same character as death: it attacks the noble palaces of kings as well as the poor huts of shepherds, and when it takes full possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to take away fear and shame..."
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The truth is, Senor, that I'm the most unfortunate doctor one could find anywhere in the world, where a physician can kill the sick person he's treating and wants to be paid for his work, which is nothing but signing a piece of paper for some medicines that are made not by him but by the apothecary, and that's the whole swindle; but when other people's well-being costs me drops of blood, slaps, pinches, pinpricks, and lashes, they don't giv..
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there is one thing, among many others, concerning knights errant that seems objectionable to me, and it is that when they find themselves about to embark on a great and perilous adventure, in which there is a manifest danger that they will lose their lives, never at the moment of undertaking it do they think of commending themselves to God, as every Christian is obliged to do at times of danger; instead, they commend themselves to their lad..
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from this lamentable history one can learn how great was the cruelty of Marcela, the love of Grisostomo, and the steadfastness of your friendship, as well as the final destination of those who madly gallop along the path that heedless love places in front of them.
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Those who had listened to Grisostomo's song thought it was very good, though the one who read it said he did not think it conformed to the accounts he had heard of Marcela's virtue and modesty, because in it Grisostomo complained of jealousy, suspicions, and absence, all to the detriment of Marcela's good name and reputation. To which Ambrosio, as the one who knew best the most hidden thoughts of his friend, replied: 'Senor, so that you may..
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jealousy
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I know, with the natural understanding that God has given me, that everything beautiful is lovable, but I cannot grasp why, simply because it is loved, the thing loved for its beauty is obliged to love the one who loves it.
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So tell me now, who's crazier: the man who's crazy because he can't help it or the man who chooses to be crazy?" To which Sanson responded: "The difference between those two madmen is that the one who can't help it will always be mad, and the one who chooses can stop whenever he wants to."
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the princess will love me so much despite her father that he, knowing full well that I am the son of a water-carrier, will accept me as her lord and husband; if he does not, this is where abducting her and taking her wherever I choose comes in, for either time or death will put an end to her parents' anger.
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By now the night had grown even darker, and a good number of lights began to move through the forest, just as the dry exhalations of the earth move across the sky and to our eyes seem like shooting stars.
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but if virtue were the wealth that is held in high esteem, I would not envy the fortunes of others or weep for my own misfortunes.
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And this denial added more flames to the fire and more ardor to our desire, because, although it silenced our tongues, it could not silence our pens, which, with greater freedom that tongues, tend to reveal to the person we love what is hidden in our soul, for often the presence of the beloved confuses and silences the most determined intention and the boldest tongue.
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Do you think the Amaryllises, Phyllises, Sylvias, Dianas, Galateas, Alidas, and all the rest that fill books, ballads, barbershops, and theaters are really ladies of flesh and blood who belong to those who celebrate them? No, of course not, for most are imagined in order to provide a subject for their verses, and so that people will think of them as lovers and men who have the capacity to be lovers.
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But who in the world can boast that he has penetrated and understood the confused thought and mutable condition of a woman? No one, certainly.
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besides, everyone's equal when they sleep...
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it's my intention to clear this insula of all kinds of filth, as well as people who are vagrants, idlers, and sluggards, because I want you to know, my friends, that shiftless, lazy people are to the nation what drones are to the hive: they eat the honey that the worker bees produce.
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Aquella noche se leia en El Messager: Despacho telegrafico: El rey don Carlos ha huido de Bourges, y ha entrado en Espana por la frontera de Cataluna. Barcelona se ha sublevado en favor suyo.
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Estimate a ti mismo, y seras estimado de los demas.
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Cuando el valiente huye, la chupercheria esta descubierta.
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life-philosophy
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I kako ovaj tvoj spis ne ide ni za cim drugim nego da unisti ugled i vlast koju i medu svijetom i medu svjetinom uzivaju viteske knjige, ne treba ti prosjaciti sentencije od filozofa, recenice iz Svetog pisma, price od pjesnika, govore od retora, cudesa od svetaca, nego nastoj da ti u knjizi budu krepke, valjane i dobro probrane rijeci, pa da ti pricanje i recenice poteku zvucno i ugodno, koliko god mozes, znas i volis, a da misli svoje isk..
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inspirational
prologue
renaissance
spain
wrting
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
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ingratitude is the daughter of pride and one of the greatest sins we know...
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if you consider it for a moment, it would be easier for you to turn your will to loving one who adores you, rather than trying to force love from one who despises you.
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I only understand that while I'm sleeping I have no fear, or hope, or trouble, or glory; blessed be whoever invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thought...
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No more," said one of the two who seemed to be monarchs, "no more, divine singer, for it would mean continuing into infinity if you were to represent for us now the death and charms of the peerless Altisidora, who is not dead, as the ignorant world thinks, but alive on the tongues of Fame..."
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