{"id":279,"date":"2019-12-01T16:45:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T16:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/donquixoteoflamancha\/chapter\/second-part-chapter-xliii-2\/"},"modified":"2020-03-30T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T16:35:44","slug":"second-part-chapter-xliii","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/donquixoteoflamancha\/chapter\/second-part-chapter-xliii\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Part. Chapter XLIII"},"content":{"raw":"<a href=\"https:\/\/cvc.cervantes.es\/literatura\/clasicos\/quijote\/edicion\/parte2\/cap43\/default.htm\">CHAPTER XLIII<\/a>\r\n<div class=\"extract\">\r\n<h2 class=\"extractTextNoIndent\"><span class=\"italic\">Regarding the second set of precepts that Don Quixote gave to Sancho Panza<\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3527\/3751384373_f8454c61e0_b.jpg&amp;scale=8&amp;rotate=0\" \/>\r\n<p class=\"chapterOpenerText\">Who could have heard this past speech of Don Quixote and not taken him for a very wise and well-intentioned person? But, as has been said so often in the course of this great history, he spoke nonsense only with regard to chivalry, and in other conversations he demonstrated a clear and confident understanding, so that his actions constantly belied his judgment, and his judgment belied his actions; but in this matter of the additional advice he gave to Sancho, he showed that he possessed great cleverness and revealed to a very high degree both his intelligence and his madness.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">Sancho listened to him very attentively and attempted to commit his advice to memory, like a man who intended to follow it and use it to bring the gestation of his governorship to a successful delivery. And so Don Quixote continued, and he said:<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cWith regard to how you should govern your person and house, Sancho, the first thing I recommend is that you keep clean, and that you trim your nails and not allow them to grow, as some men do whose <a class=\"calibre\" id=\"page769\"><\/a>ignorance has led them to believe that long nails beautify their hands, as if those superfluous growths that they refuse to cut were nails, when they are actually the claws of a lizard-eating kestrel: a filthy and extraordinary abuse. Do not go around, Sancho, unbelted and negligent; slovenly clothing is an indication of a listless spirit, unless slovenliness and negligence are actually a sign of shrewdness, as was judged to be the case with Julius Caesar. Determine with intelligence the worth of your position, and if it allows you to give your servants livery, let it be modest and useful rather than showy and splendid, and divide it between your servants and the poor: I mean that if you are going to dress six pages, dress three of them and three poor men, and in this way you will have pages both in heaven and on the ground; this unusual manner of giving livery cannot be understood by the vainglorious. Do not eat garlic or onions lest their smell reveal your peasant origins. Walk slowly; speak calmly, but not in a way that makes it seem you are listening to yourself, for all affectation is wrong. Eat sparingly at midday and even less for supper, for the health of the entire body is forged in the workshop of the stomach. Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise. Be careful, Sancho, not to chew with your mouth full or to eructate in front of anyone.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cI don\u2019t understand <span class=\"italic\">eructate,\u201d<\/span> said Sancho.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">And Don Quixote said:<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201c<span class=\"italic\">Eructate,<\/span> Sancho, means <span class=\"italic\">to belch,<\/span> which is one of the crudest words in the Castilian language, although it is very expressive, and so educated people have had recourse to Latin, and instead of <span class=\"italic\">belch<\/span> they say <span class=\"italic\">eructate,<\/span> and instead of <span class=\"italic\">belches, eructations;<\/span> and if some do not understand these terms, it matters very little, for in time their use will be introduced into the language and they will easily be understood; this enriches the language, over which the common people and usage have control.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cTruly, Se\u00f1or,\u201d said Sancho, \u201cone of the pieces of advice and counsel that I plan to carry in my memory will be not to belch, because I tend to do that very often.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201c<span class=\"italic\">Eructate,<\/span> Sancho, not <span class=\"italic\">belch,\u201d<\/span> said Don Quixote.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cI\u2019ll say <span class=\"italic\">eructate<\/span> from now on,\u201d responded Sancho, \u201cand by my faith, I won\u2019t forget.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cSancho, you also should not mix into your speech the host of proverbs that you customarily use, for although proverbs are short maxims, the ones you bring in are often so far-fetched that they seem more like nonsense than like maxims.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cGod can remedy that,\u201d responded Sancho, \u201cbecause I know more <a class=\"calibre\" id=\"page770\"><\/a>proverbs than a book, and so many of them come into my mouth at one time when I talk that they fight with one another to get out, but my tongue tosses out the first ones it finds, even if they\u2019re not to the point. But I\u2019ll be careful from now on to say the ones that suit the gravity of my position, because in a well-stocked house, supper is soon cooked; and if you cut the cards, you don\u2019t deal; and the man who sounds the alarm is safe; and for giving and keeping, you need some sense.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cGo on, Sancho!\u201d said Don Quixote. \u201cForce the proverbs in, string them together one after another on a thread! No one will stop you! My mother punishes me and I deceive her! I tell you to avoid proverbs, and in an instant you have come out with a litany of them that have as much to do with what we are discussing as the hills of \u00dabeda. Look, Sancho, I am not saying that an appropriate proverb is wrong, but loading and stringing together proverbs any which way makes your conversation lifeless and lowborn.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">When you mount a horse, do not lean your body back over the hind bow of the saddle, or hold your legs stiff and sticking out at an angle from the belly of the horse, or ride so carelessly that it looks as if you were riding your donkey, for riding a horse makes gentlemen of some men and stable boys of others. Be moderate in your sleeping, for the man who does not get up with the sun does not possess the day; and remember, Sancho, that diligence is the mother of good fortune, and sloth, her opposite, never reached the conclusion demanded by good intentions. This final piece of advice that I wish to give you now, although it may not serve for the adornment of the body, I want you to remember very well, for I believe it will be no less useful to you than those I have given you so far, and it is that you should never become involved in arguing about lineages, at least, in comparing one to the other, because of necessity, when they are compared, one has to be better, and you will be despised by the one you place lower, and not rewarded in any way by the one you deem higher. Your dress should be full-length breeches, a long doublet, and a slightly longer cape; absolutely no pantaloons, for they do not become gentlemen or governors. For now, this is what has occurred to me to tell you; time will pass, and my precepts will be appropriate to the occasion, if you are careful to inform me about the circumstances in which you find yourself.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cSe\u00f1or,\u201d responded Sancho, \u201cI see very well that everything your grace has told me is good, holy, and beneficial, but what good will the precepts do if I don\u2019t remember a single one? It\u2019s true that what you said <a class=\"calibre\" id=\"page771\"><\/a>about not letting my nails grow and getting married again won\u2019t slip my mind if I can help it, but those other useless and complicated and troublesome things I don\u2019t remember, and I won\u2019t remember them any more than I do yesterday\u2019s clouds, and so you\u2019ll have to write them down for me, and though I don\u2019t know how to read or write, I\u2019ll give them to my confessor so that he can slip them in and remind me of them whenever it\u2019s necessary.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cO, sinner that I am!\u201d responded Don Quixote. \u201cHow bad it seems in governors not to be able to read or write! Because you must know, Sancho, that a man not knowing how to read, or being left-handed, means one of two things: either he was the child of parents who were too poor and lowborn, or he was so mischievous and badly behaved himself that he could not absorb good habits or good instruction. This is a great fault in you, and I would like you at least to learn to sign your name.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cI know how to sign my name very well,\u201d responded Sancho, \u201cbecause when I was steward of a brotherhood in my village, I learned to make some letters like the marks on bundles, and they told me that they said my name; better yet, I\u2019ll pretend that my right hand has been hurt, and I\u2019ll have somebody else sign for me; there\u2019s a remedy for everything except death, and since I\u2019ll be in charge of everything, I can do whatever I want; then, too, when your father\u2019s the magistrate\u2026.<sup class=\"calibre4\"><span class=\"footnoteRef\"><a id=\"note506\" class=\"calibre2\" href=\"..\/footnotes#footnote506\">506<\/a><\/span><\/sup> And being agovernor, which is more than being a magistrate, just let them come and they\u2019ll see what happens! No, let them make fun of me and speak ill of me: they\u2019ll come for wool and go home shorn; and when God loves you, your house knows it; and the rich man\u2019s folly passes for good judgment in the world; and since that\u2019s what I\u2019ll be, being a governor and a very generous one, which is what I plan to be, nobody will notice any faults in me. No, just be like honey and the flies will go after you; you\u2019re only worth as much as you have, my grandmother used to say; and you won\u2019t get revenge on a well-established man.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cO, may you be accursed, Sancho!\u201d said Don Quixote at this point. \u201cMay sixty thousand devils take you and your proverbs! For the past hour you have been stringing them together and with each one giving me a cruel taste of torment. I assure you that one day these proverbs will lead you to the gallows; because of them your vassals will take the governorship away from you, or rise up against you. Tell me, where do you find them, you ignorant man, and how do you apply them, you fool, when to <a class=\"calibre\" id=\"page772\"><\/a>say only one that is really applicable, I have to perspire and labor like a ditchdigger?\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cBy God, my lord and master,\u201d replied Sancho, \u201cyour grace complains about very small things. Why the devil does it trouble you when I make use of my fortune, when I have no other, and no other wealth except proverbs and more proverbs? And right now four have come to mind that are a perfect fit, like pears in a wicker basket, but I won\u2019t say them, because golden silence is what they call Sancho.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cThat Sancho is not you,\u201d said Don Quixote, \u201cbecause not only are you not golden silence, you are foolish speech and stubborn persistence, but even so I should like to know which four proverbs came to mind just now that were so to the point, because I have been searching my mind, and I have a good one, and I cannot think of a single proverb.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cWhich ones could be better,\u201d said Sancho, \u201cthan \u2018Never put your thumbs between two wisdom teeth\u2019 and \u2018There\u2019s no answer to get out of my house and what do you want with my wife\u2019 and \u2018Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it\u2019s bad luck for the pitcher\u2019? They\u2019re all just fine. Because nobody should take on his governor or the person in authority because he\u2019ll come out of it hurt, like the man who puts his finger between two wisdom teeth, and if they\u2019re not wisdom teeth but just plain molars, it doesn\u2019t matter; and there\u2019s no reply to what the governor says, like the \u2018Leave my house and what do you want with my wife.\u2019 As for the stone and the pitcher, even a blind man can see that. So whoever sees the mote in somebody else\u2019s eye has to see the beam in his own, so that nobody can say about him: \u2018The dead woman was frightened by the one with her throat cut.\u2019 And your grace knows very well that the fool knows more in his own house than the wise man does in somebody else\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cThat is not so, Sancho,\u201d responded Don Quixote, \u201cfor the fool knows nothing whether in his own house or in another\u2019s, because on a foundation of foolishness no reasonable building can be erected. Enough of this now, Sancho, for if you govern badly, the fault will be yours and mine the shame; but it consoles me that I did what I had to do and advised you with all the truth and wisdom of which I am capable: now I am relieved of my obligation and my promise. May God guide you, Sancho, and govern you in your governorship, and free me of the misgivings I still have that you will turn the entire \u00ednsula upside down, something I could avoid by revealing to the duke who you are, and telling him that this plump little body of yours is nothing but a sack filled with proverbs and guile.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cSe\u00f1or,\u201d replied Sancho, \u201cif your grace believes I\u2019m not worthy of this governorship, I\u2019ll let it go right now, for I care more for a sliver of nail from my soul than I do for my whole body, and just plain Sancho will get by on bread and onions as well as the governor does on partridges and capons; besides, everyone\u2019s equal when they sleep, the great and the small, the poor and the rich; and if your grace thinks about it, you\u2019ll see that it was you alone who gave me the idea of governing, because I don\u2019t know any more about the governorships of \u00ednsulas than a vulture; if you think the devil will carry me off because I\u2019m a governor, I\u2019d rather go to heaven as Sancho than to hell as a governor.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cBy God, Sancho,\u201d said Don Quixote, \u201csimply because of the last words that you have said I judge you worthy of being the governor of a thousand \u00ednsulas: you have a good nature, and without that no learning is worthwhile; commend yourself to God and try not to wander from your first purpose; I mean that you should always have the firm and steady intention of doing the right thing in everything that happens to you, because heaven always favors virtuous desires. And now let us go to dinner, for I believe the duke and duchess are waiting for us.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2613\/3751404043_1cd4882748_b.jpg&amp;scale=8&amp;rotate=0\" \/>","rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cvc.cervantes.es\/literatura\/clasicos\/quijote\/edicion\/parte2\/cap43\/default.htm\">CHAPTER XLIII<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"extract\">\n<h2 class=\"extractTextNoIndent\"><span class=\"italic\">Regarding the second set of precepts that Don Quixote gave to Sancho Panza<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3527\/3751384373_f8454c61e0_b.jpg&amp;scale=8&amp;rotate=0\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"chapterOpenerText\">Who could have heard this past speech of Don Quixote and not taken him for a very wise and well-intentioned person? But, as has been said so often in the course of this great history, he spoke nonsense only with regard to chivalry, and in other conversations he demonstrated a clear and confident understanding, so that his actions constantly belied his judgment, and his judgment belied his actions; but in this matter of the additional advice he gave to Sancho, he showed that he possessed great cleverness and revealed to a very high degree both his intelligence and his madness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">Sancho listened to him very attentively and attempted to commit his advice to memory, like a man who intended to follow it and use it to bring the gestation of his governorship to a successful delivery. And so Don Quixote continued, and he said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cWith regard to how you should govern your person and house, Sancho, the first thing I recommend is that you keep clean, and that you trim your nails and not allow them to grow, as some men do whose <a class=\"calibre\" id=\"page769\"><\/a>ignorance has led them to believe that long nails beautify their hands, as if those superfluous growths that they refuse to cut were nails, when they are actually the claws of a lizard-eating kestrel: a filthy and extraordinary abuse. Do not go around, Sancho, unbelted and negligent; slovenly clothing is an indication of a listless spirit, unless slovenliness and negligence are actually a sign of shrewdness, as was judged to be the case with Julius Caesar. Determine with intelligence the worth of your position, and if it allows you to give your servants livery, let it be modest and useful rather than showy and splendid, and divide it between your servants and the poor: I mean that if you are going to dress six pages, dress three of them and three poor men, and in this way you will have pages both in heaven and on the ground; this unusual manner of giving livery cannot be understood by the vainglorious. Do not eat garlic or onions lest their smell reveal your peasant origins. Walk slowly; speak calmly, but not in a way that makes it seem you are listening to yourself, for all affectation is wrong. Eat sparingly at midday and even less for supper, for the health of the entire body is forged in the workshop of the stomach. Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise. Be careful, Sancho, not to chew with your mouth full or to eructate in front of anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cI don\u2019t understand <span class=\"italic\">eructate,\u201d<\/span> said Sancho.<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">And Don Quixote said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201c<span class=\"italic\">Eructate,<\/span> Sancho, means <span class=\"italic\">to belch,<\/span> which is one of the crudest words in the Castilian language, although it is very expressive, and so educated people have had recourse to Latin, and instead of <span class=\"italic\">belch<\/span> they say <span class=\"italic\">eructate,<\/span> and instead of <span class=\"italic\">belches, eructations;<\/span> and if some do not understand these terms, it matters very little, for in time their use will be introduced into the language and they will easily be understood; this enriches the language, over which the common people and usage have control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cTruly, Se\u00f1or,\u201d said Sancho, \u201cone of the pieces of advice and counsel that I plan to carry in my memory will be not to belch, because I tend to do that very often.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201c<span class=\"italic\">Eructate,<\/span> Sancho, not <span class=\"italic\">belch,\u201d<\/span> said Don Quixote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cI\u2019ll say <span class=\"italic\">eructate<\/span> from now on,\u201d responded Sancho, \u201cand by my faith, I won\u2019t forget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cSancho, you also should not mix into your speech the host of proverbs that you customarily use, for although proverbs are short maxims, the ones you bring in are often so far-fetched that they seem more like nonsense than like maxims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cGod can remedy that,\u201d responded Sancho, \u201cbecause I know more <a class=\"calibre\" id=\"page770\"><\/a>proverbs than a book, and so many of them come into my mouth at one time when I talk that they fight with one another to get out, but my tongue tosses out the first ones it finds, even if they\u2019re not to the point. But I\u2019ll be careful from now on to say the ones that suit the gravity of my position, because in a well-stocked house, supper is soon cooked; and if you cut the cards, you don\u2019t deal; and the man who sounds the alarm is safe; and for giving and keeping, you need some sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cGo on, Sancho!\u201d said Don Quixote. \u201cForce the proverbs in, string them together one after another on a thread! No one will stop you! My mother punishes me and I deceive her! I tell you to avoid proverbs, and in an instant you have come out with a litany of them that have as much to do with what we are discussing as the hills of \u00dabeda. Look, Sancho, I am not saying that an appropriate proverb is wrong, but loading and stringing together proverbs any which way makes your conversation lifeless and lowborn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">When you mount a horse, do not lean your body back over the hind bow of the saddle, or hold your legs stiff and sticking out at an angle from the belly of the horse, or ride so carelessly that it looks as if you were riding your donkey, for riding a horse makes gentlemen of some men and stable boys of others. Be moderate in your sleeping, for the man who does not get up with the sun does not possess the day; and remember, Sancho, that diligence is the mother of good fortune, and sloth, her opposite, never reached the conclusion demanded by good intentions. This final piece of advice that I wish to give you now, although it may not serve for the adornment of the body, I want you to remember very well, for I believe it will be no less useful to you than those I have given you so far, and it is that you should never become involved in arguing about lineages, at least, in comparing one to the other, because of necessity, when they are compared, one has to be better, and you will be despised by the one you place lower, and not rewarded in any way by the one you deem higher. Your dress should be full-length breeches, a long doublet, and a slightly longer cape; absolutely no pantaloons, for they do not become gentlemen or governors. For now, this is what has occurred to me to tell you; time will pass, and my precepts will be appropriate to the occasion, if you are careful to inform me about the circumstances in which you find yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cSe\u00f1or,\u201d responded Sancho, \u201cI see very well that everything your grace has told me is good, holy, and beneficial, but what good will the precepts do if I don\u2019t remember a single one? It\u2019s true that what you said <a class=\"calibre\" id=\"page771\"><\/a>about not letting my nails grow and getting married again won\u2019t slip my mind if I can help it, but those other useless and complicated and troublesome things I don\u2019t remember, and I won\u2019t remember them any more than I do yesterday\u2019s clouds, and so you\u2019ll have to write them down for me, and though I don\u2019t know how to read or write, I\u2019ll give them to my confessor so that he can slip them in and remind me of them whenever it\u2019s necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cO, sinner that I am!\u201d responded Don Quixote. \u201cHow bad it seems in governors not to be able to read or write! Because you must know, Sancho, that a man not knowing how to read, or being left-handed, means one of two things: either he was the child of parents who were too poor and lowborn, or he was so mischievous and badly behaved himself that he could not absorb good habits or good instruction. This is a great fault in you, and I would like you at least to learn to sign your name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cI know how to sign my name very well,\u201d responded Sancho, \u201cbecause when I was steward of a brotherhood in my village, I learned to make some letters like the marks on bundles, and they told me that they said my name; better yet, I\u2019ll pretend that my right hand has been hurt, and I\u2019ll have somebody else sign for me; there\u2019s a remedy for everything except death, and since I\u2019ll be in charge of everything, I can do whatever I want; then, too, when your father\u2019s the magistrate\u2026.<sup class=\"calibre4\"><span class=\"footnoteRef\"><a id=\"note506\" class=\"calibre2\" href=\"..\/footnotes#footnote506\">506<\/a><\/span><\/sup> And being agovernor, which is more than being a magistrate, just let them come and they\u2019ll see what happens! No, let them make fun of me and speak ill of me: they\u2019ll come for wool and go home shorn; and when God loves you, your house knows it; and the rich man\u2019s folly passes for good judgment in the world; and since that\u2019s what I\u2019ll be, being a governor and a very generous one, which is what I plan to be, nobody will notice any faults in me. No, just be like honey and the flies will go after you; you\u2019re only worth as much as you have, my grandmother used to say; and you won\u2019t get revenge on a well-established man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cO, may you be accursed, Sancho!\u201d said Don Quixote at this point. \u201cMay sixty thousand devils take you and your proverbs! For the past hour you have been stringing them together and with each one giving me a cruel taste of torment. I assure you that one day these proverbs will lead you to the gallows; because of them your vassals will take the governorship away from you, or rise up against you. Tell me, where do you find them, you ignorant man, and how do you apply them, you fool, when to <a class=\"calibre\" id=\"page772\"><\/a>say only one that is really applicable, I have to perspire and labor like a ditchdigger?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cBy God, my lord and master,\u201d replied Sancho, \u201cyour grace complains about very small things. Why the devil does it trouble you when I make use of my fortune, when I have no other, and no other wealth except proverbs and more proverbs? And right now four have come to mind that are a perfect fit, like pears in a wicker basket, but I won\u2019t say them, because golden silence is what they call Sancho.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cThat Sancho is not you,\u201d said Don Quixote, \u201cbecause not only are you not golden silence, you are foolish speech and stubborn persistence, but even so I should like to know which four proverbs came to mind just now that were so to the point, because I have been searching my mind, and I have a good one, and I cannot think of a single proverb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cWhich ones could be better,\u201d said Sancho, \u201cthan \u2018Never put your thumbs between two wisdom teeth\u2019 and \u2018There\u2019s no answer to get out of my house and what do you want with my wife\u2019 and \u2018Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it\u2019s bad luck for the pitcher\u2019? They\u2019re all just fine. Because nobody should take on his governor or the person in authority because he\u2019ll come out of it hurt, like the man who puts his finger between two wisdom teeth, and if they\u2019re not wisdom teeth but just plain molars, it doesn\u2019t matter; and there\u2019s no reply to what the governor says, like the \u2018Leave my house and what do you want with my wife.\u2019 As for the stone and the pitcher, even a blind man can see that. So whoever sees the mote in somebody else\u2019s eye has to see the beam in his own, so that nobody can say about him: \u2018The dead woman was frightened by the one with her throat cut.\u2019 And your grace knows very well that the fool knows more in his own house than the wise man does in somebody else\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cThat is not so, Sancho,\u201d responded Don Quixote, \u201cfor the fool knows nothing whether in his own house or in another\u2019s, because on a foundation of foolishness no reasonable building can be erected. Enough of this now, Sancho, for if you govern badly, the fault will be yours and mine the shame; but it consoles me that I did what I had to do and advised you with all the truth and wisdom of which I am capable: now I am relieved of my obligation and my promise. May God guide you, Sancho, and govern you in your governorship, and free me of the misgivings I still have that you will turn the entire \u00ednsula upside down, something I could avoid by revealing to the duke who you are, and telling him that this plump little body of yours is nothing but a sack filled with proverbs and guile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cSe\u00f1or,\u201d replied Sancho, \u201cif your grace believes I\u2019m not worthy of this governorship, I\u2019ll let it go right now, for I care more for a sliver of nail from my soul than I do for my whole body, and just plain Sancho will get by on bread and onions as well as the governor does on partridges and capons; besides, everyone\u2019s equal when they sleep, the great and the small, the poor and the rich; and if your grace thinks about it, you\u2019ll see that it was you alone who gave me the idea of governing, because I don\u2019t know any more about the governorships of \u00ednsulas than a vulture; if you think the devil will carry me off because I\u2019m a governor, I\u2019d rather go to heaven as Sancho than to hell as a governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cBy God, Sancho,\u201d said Don Quixote, \u201csimply because of the last words that you have said I judge you worthy of being the governor of a thousand \u00ednsulas: you have a good nature, and without that no learning is worthwhile; commend yourself to God and try not to wander from your first purpose; I mean that you should always have the firm and steady intention of doing the right thing in everything that happens to you, because heaven always favors virtuous desires. 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