Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

1547 – 1616

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 – 23 April 1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet and playwright. He is most famous for his novel Don Quixote, or Don Quijote de la Mancha, which is considered by many to be the first modern novel, one of the greatest works in Western literature, and the greatest of the Spanish language.

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...be sure to dress him so that you hide what he is and he looks like what he'll become.

LOS PERROS DE MAHUDE

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground

So then, his armour being furbished, his morion turned into a helmet, his hack christened, and he himself confirmed, he came to the conclusion that nothing more was needed now but to look out for a lady to be in love with; for a knight-errant without love was like a tree soul.

Silence spoke for the two lovers, and their eyes were the tongues that revealed their chaste and joyful thoughts.

A good repentance is the best medicine for diseases of the soul.

Un buen arrepentimiento es la mejor medicina que tienen las enfermedades del alma.

In great dangers, the small hope of overcoming them draws desperate strength from the spirit.

En los grandes perigros, la poca esperanza de vencerlos saca del ánimo desesperadas fuerzas.

Traveling through different countries and communicating with different peoples makes men wise.

El andar en tierras y comunicar con diversas gentes, hace a los hombres discretos.

Rarely, if ever, can ambition be satisfied with no harm to another.

Pocas o ninguna vez se cumple con la ambición que no sea con daño de tercero.

It is ambition, but a generous ambition, that seeks to improve one's status without harm to others.

Ambición es, pero ambiciòn generosa, la del que pretende mejorar su estado sin perjuicio de tercero.