We cannot all be friars, and many are the ways by which God leads his own to eternal… — Miguel de Cervantes
We cannot all be friars, and many are the ways by which God leads his own to eternal life. Knight-errantry is religion.
In the original Spanish
No todos podemos ser frailes, y muchos son los caminos por donde lleva Dios a los suyos al cielo: religion es la caballeria.
Don Quixote · 1615
★ 3.9To Sancho Panza, on his asking whether, to get to heaven, we should all become monks.
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De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.
Original citation
De Cervantes, Miguel. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha]. Madrid: Francisco de Robles, 1605.
