Showing posts with label don quixote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label don quixote. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Senores, if fortune turns her wheel so that my master decides not to be an emperor but an archbishop, I'd like to know now: what do archbishops errant usually give their squires?

sancho panza, in don quixote by miguel de cervantes, pt.1, ch.26, trans. edith grossman

Monday, August 1, 2011

Pallida mors equo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas,
Regumque turres.

horace, quoted by cervantes in prologue to don quixote
Non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro.

aesop, quoted by cervantes in prologue to don quixote