For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
Miguel de CervantesIf thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
Miguel de CervantesThe brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
Miguel de CervantesBy such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
Miguel de CervantesOne of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
Miguel de Cervantes