Francisco de Quevedo Quotes

If you want women to follow you, lead the way.

Love is faith and not science.

No one promises as much as the one who does not intend to fulfill.

Live only for yourself if you can, for if you die, you die only for yourself.

If you do good to be thanked, you are a merchant, not a benefactor; greedy, not charitable.

There is no love without the fear of offending or losing what is loved.

There are short books that, in order to understand them as they deserve, a very long life is needed.

Leisure is the loss of salary.

Only he who leads with love is served with loyalty.

Gratitude is the principal part of a good man.

The general must be considered, and the soldier obedient.

We all desire to grow old; and we all deny that we have grown old.