Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
Let us forget and forgive injuries.
Citations
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote. Translated by John Ormsby, Macmillan, 1885.
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What is particularly interesting about this quotation is that the author was not a religious leader or a philosopher, but a hard-nosed military man and ruler. He recognized the corrosive effect on a society that a thirst for revenge can bring.
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 novel Don Quixote, a work often cited as both the first modern novel and one of the pinnacles of world literature.