There is no rivalry with women; the one who fails to esteem them is a fool, because he needs them, and the one who insults them is an ingrate, for he lacks the respect due the hospitality that women gave men in their fi rst journey
Women are so great and kind how can men treat women like this and not have the up most respect for them when they do so much and go through so much.
A full generation younger than G ́ongora and Lope, Francisco deQuevedo y Villegas emerged as a poet of singular talent when seven-teen of his poems were published in the1605Flores de poetas ilustresde Espa ̃na.
Francisco was a better poet then Gongora and Lope and he was much much younger than them.
I felt my sword, conquered by years,and my eyes found no placeto rest save on death’s souvenirs.
Does this mean he can't find a place to rest to go to the other side?
"It seems that Fortune envies the great, so it equalizes things by giving long life to the useless, a short one to the important"
The great people in our lives don't ever seem to live long than the nasty ugly people of the world.
By thelate 16th century, the poor had come to be seen as delinquents.
This is sad how the poor were looked at back then.
desenga ̃no
realization of the truth, especially after a period of deceit
And when he felt my head near thestatue, he doubled up his fist and knocked my head into that devil of a bull so hard that I felt the painfrom its horns for three days. And he said to me, "You fool, now learn that a blind man's servant has to beone step ahead of the devil." And he laughed out loud at his joke.
This is the turning point where he learns that he needs to grow up because he all alone and take care of himself.
To be sure, in the peninsula the purity-of-blood statutes meant that certain rights and privileges were denied to the descen-dants of Jews and Muslims.
Jews and Muslims were not considered Spaniards because they were not Catholic.