“The poet may describe or sing things, not as they are, but as they ought to have been, while the historian has to write them down, not as they ought to have been, but as they were.”

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

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“All I know is that while I’m asleep, I’m never afraid, and I have no hopes, no struggles, no glories - and bless the man who invented sleep, a cloak over all human thought, food that drives away hunger, water that banishes thirst, fire that heats up cold, chill that moderates passion, and, finally, universal currency with which all things can be bought, weight and balance that brings the shepherd and the king, the fool and the wise, to the same level. There’s only one bad thing about sleep, as far as I’ve ever heard, and that is that it resembles death, since there’s very little difference between a sleeping man and a corpse.”

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote de La Mancha

“Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.”

Miguel De Cervantes - Don Quijote

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#7. Don Quijote de la Mancha

“La libertad, Sancho, es uno de los más preciosos dones que a los hombres dieron los cielos; con ella no pueden igualarse los tesoros que encierra la tierra ni el mar encubre; por la libertad, así como por la honra, se puede y debe aventurar la vida, y, por el contrario, el cautiverio es el mayor mal que puede venir a los hombres.”