Francisco de Quevedo Quotes

Mighty knight is Sir Money.

Not happy is he to whom fortune cannot give more, but he to whom it cannot take anything away.

He who suspects that he always errs is right.

Criminals do less harm than a bad judge.

Excess is the poison of reason.

A single stone can bring down a building.

To humble oneself is virtue, power, and humility; to let oneself be humbled is baseness and a crime.

For our greed, much is little; for our need, little is much.

It is convenient to live considering that one has to die; death is always good; it seems bad sometimes because sometimes the one who dies is bad.

Astrology is a science that is a treat for the cowardly, without any foundation other than the belief of the superstitious. It is a false testimony that poorly occupied men raise to the stars.

Life is a pain in which the pain of death begins, and it lasts as long as life does.

The advice of chastisement most of the time comes late.