Maxioms by Miguel De Cervantes
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause read more
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.
Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses read more
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
