#cervantes — Public Fediverse posts
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I’d be as good a king of my estate as any other King; and being so, I should do as I liked; and doing as I liked, I should take my pleasure; and taking my pleasure, I should be contented; and when one’s content, there’s nothing more to desire; and when there’s nothing more to desire, there’s an end of it.
[Tan Rey seria yo de mi estado, como cada uno del suyo: y siendolo, haria lo que quisiesse: y haziendo lo que quisiesse, haria mi gusto: y haziendo mi gusto, estaria contento: y en estando uno contento, no tiene mas que dessear: y no teniendo mas qu essear, acabose.]Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) Spanish novelist
Don Quixote, Part 1, ch. 50 [Sancho] (1605) [tr. Cohen (1950)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cervantes-miguel-de/…
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🗓 Efeméride: 16 de enero de 1605.
📚 Hoy celebramos la publicación de "El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha" en Madrid. La obra maestra de Miguel de Cervantes revolucionó la literatura universal y sigue inspirando a lectores de todo el mundo.
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Top result of today's auction in Paris: not #Cervantes or #Rabelais, but #Descartes - a 3-page letter to Constantijn Huygens fetched 560,000 euros (i.e. 705,600 euros with fees), almost ten times its estimate. Philosophy and science easily beat literature in the saleroom these days.