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.

All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.

I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued