For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.

Fair and softly goes far.

The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

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.

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

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.