"Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water."

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This reflection on truth by Miguel de Cervantes resonates across generations. It highlights a fundamental truth about human nature: our continuous search for meaning in truth is what ultimately defines our character and our path forward.

About Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his two-part novel Don Quixote, a work considered to be the first modern novel. Don Quixote has been labelled by many well-known authors as the "best book of all time" and the "best and most central work in world literature".

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"Blessings on him who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thoughts, the food that satisfies hunger, the drink that quenches thirst, the fire that warms cold, the cold that moderates heat, and, lastly, the common currency that buys all things, the balance and weight that equalizes the shepherd and the king, the simpleton and the sage."

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"I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences."

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"A leader does not command the wind, but sets the sails and steadies the crew. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

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"It is a essential truth that creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought — an essential principle for the reflective life."

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