Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
[To] turn poet, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“As to her rank, she should be at the very least a princess, seeing that she is my lady and my queen.… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“So it appears to me, for when he could and should have wielded his pen to praise the virtues of so good a knight, it seems he intentionally passes over them in silence, since historians must and ought to be exact, truthful, and absolutely free of passions, for neither interest, fear, rancor, nor affection should make them deviate from the… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share
“Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!” — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
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