Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda water the day after.

The legend of Don Juan appears to be one of the most productive stories in all of literature. After its first setting by Tirso de Molina—still a classic of the Spanish stage—it has been adapted innumerable times.

هو يفعل ما يتمنى كل رجل ان يفعله و لكن عشرات الموانع الدينية و الأنسانية توقفهم و لا توقف دون خوان
الذي بدا باحثا عن مثال للجمال و الحب و لكنه لم يقع عليه ابدا
فانغمس في المتع لا يشبع منها و لا يكف عن مطاردنها
هاربا من الملل ينتقل من امرأة لاخري دون ان يقر له قرار
دون جوان هو احد اهم خمس شخصيات ادب

Byron's famous verse-novel is kind of uneven, but when he's on form it's both moving and witty. My favorite sequences are near the beginning, when the beautiful Donna Julia has fallen in love with young Juan and is having qualms of conscience. First she decides that she can no longer continue to see

"¡Qué hermosa estaba! Su corazón maduro
ardía en sus mejías y no sentía ningún desdoro.
Oh amor, cuán perfecto es tu aire místico,
que da fuerzas al débil y aplasta al fuerte.
Cuán engañados están los mortales más doctos,
a los que tu señuelo ha arrastrado.
Era inmenso el precipicio que ante ella se abría

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think;
'Tis strange, the shortest letter which man uses
Instead of speech, may form a lasting link
Of ages; to what straits old Time reduces
Frail man, when paper