absence

abundance

accumulation

bad luck

beauty

book

bragging

bread

captivity

cheat

civility

comparison

courage

cowardice

cure

death

delay

diligence

drunkenness

enduring

envy

equality

expectation

experience

fact

fear

fool

friend

genius

good deed

government

history

honor

hope

hunger

idleness

impossible

ingratitude

injury

irrational

jealousy

justice

kindness

liberty

life

love

luck

madness

marriage

motive

necessity

nervousness

onion

overcoming

paranoia

parenting

persuasion

poetry

preparedness

procrastination

proverb

reason

self

self-deception

self-knowledge

self-overcoming

shame

simplicity

sleep

sorrow

strong

suffering

tooth

translation

treason

truth

ubiquity

universal

violence

virtue

woman

women

nationality

Spanish

occupation / innovator as

poet

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lyricist

playwright

religion

Catholicism

Soldier

cause of death

natural causes

intellectual movement

Spanish Golden Age

Spaniard

is a quality whereby, even when it is of good things, it prevents them from being valued.

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued. Miguel de Cervantes

Many littles make a much. Miguel de Cervantes

A stout heart breaks bad luck. Miguel de Cervantes

Health and cheerfulness make beauty Miguel de Cervantes

is of two kinds, one of the soul and the other of the body. No matter how ugly, the beauty of the soul (manifest through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, generosity and good breeding) produces a violent and sudden love at first sight.

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man... And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently. Miguel de Cervantes

, in some women, has days and season, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it.

The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it... nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it. Miguel de Cervantes

 is never so bad that it does not have something good in it.

There is no book so bad. . . that it does not have something good in it. Miguel de Cervantes

is an unconscious expression of one's ideal, which the listener ought best to draw out through humoring.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it. Miguel de Cervantes

All sorrows are less with bread. Miguel de Cervantes

is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one. Miguel de Cervantes

is always worth cultivating. There is nothing that costs less than being civil.

There is nothing costs less than civility. Miguel de Cervantes

Comparisons are odious. Miguel de Cervantes

 lies between cowardice and recklessness.

True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness. Miguel de Cervantes

 always breeds danger... and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Delay always breeds danger... and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. Miguel de Cervantes

is neither able to keep a secret, nor observe a promise.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise. (Miguel de Cervantes)

is the one vice that brings no pleasure with it, but rather, brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them... but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage. Miguel de Cervantes

is a thing we share only when we are asleep.

When we are asleep, we are all equal. Miguel de Cervantes

is, when great, better than a poor possession.

Great expectations are better than a poor possession. Miguel de Cervantes

has many eyes and the capacity to see things underground.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. Miguel de Cervantes

is the most difficult character in comedy. He must be no simpleton that plays that part.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. (Miguel de Cervantes)

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