Don Quixote: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition (Miguel de Cervantes Classics)

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

parents are not to settle children in life against their will.

By that natural understanding which God has given me I know that everything beautiful attracts love, but I cannot see how, by reason of being loved, that which is loved for its beauty is bound to love that which loves it;

and if every sort of beauty excited love and won the heart, the will would wander vaguely to and fro unable to make choice of any; for as there is an infinity of beautiful objects there must be an infinity of inclinations, and true love, I have heard it said, is indivisible, and must be voluntary and not compelled.

“that there is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.”