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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

Miguel de Cervantes
Expectations, Great Expectations, Poor

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

Miguel de Cervantes
Porridge, Miscellaneous, Breaths
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.96

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

Miguel de Cervantes
Generosity, Envy, Reign
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.450, Collector's Library

Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.

Miguel de Cervantes
Love, Strong, Overcoming
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1948). “The Living Thoughts of Cervantes”

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

Miguel de Cervantes
Trust, Wise, Men

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

Miguel de Cervantes
Courage, War, Weapons

Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Miguel de Cervantes
Friendship, Art, Thee
"Don Quixote".

A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

Miguel de Cervantes
Men, Honor
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (2011). “Don Quixote”, p.281, Penguin

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

Miguel de Cervantes
Thee, Contempt, Familiarity
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

Everything disturbs an absent lover.

Miguel de Cervantes
Lovers, Absent
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.74, Wordsworth Editions

It is good to live and learn.

Miguel de Cervantes
Life, Learning, Evil
"Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, Part II, Book III, Ch. 32, 1615.

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.

Miguel de Cervantes
Ignorance, Ignorant, Vulgar
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1818). “Don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. [by M. Smirke].”, p.184

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

Miguel de Cervantes
Hatred, Faithful, Way
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1809). “Don Quixote”, p.62

Where there's music there can be no evil.

Miguel de Cervantes
Evil

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

Miguel de Cervantes
Men, Doe
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (2011). “Don Quixote”, p.148, Penguin

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.

Miguel de Cervantes
Who I Am, Choices, May
"Don Quixote de La Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1615.

That which costs little is less valued.

Miguel de Cervantes
Inspirational, Cost, Littles
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1749). “The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish of Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra. By Charles Jarvis Esq; ...”, p.331

All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.

Miguel de Cervantes
Enough, Persons, Handle
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1847). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.193

Man have to have friends even in hell.

Miguel de Cervantes
Men, Hell

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

Miguel de Cervantes
Communication, Feelings, Capable

Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.

Miguel de Cervantes
People, Cheat, Cunning

Let every man mind his own business.

Miguel de Cervantes
Men, Mind, Sin
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.133, Wordsworth Editions

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

Miguel de Cervantes
Envy, Reign, Virtue
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1749). “The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish of Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra. By Charles Jarvis Esq; ...”, p.441

The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.

Miguel de Cervantes
Honor, Battle, Wounds

I'll turn over a new leaf.

Miguel de Cervantes
Leafs, Turns
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1719). “THE HISTORY OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA”, p.117

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