Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.
I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.
I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!
I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't.
There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.
It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.
