Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.

A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned (books), just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.