Francisco de Quevedo Quotes

Love is the ultimate philosophy of the earth and the sky.

Justice is a constant and perpetual willingness to give each one what is due to them.

War is lifelong in men, because life is war, and to live and to fight are the same thing.

Virtue envied is virtue doubly prized.

The miser visits his treasure to remind himself that he is its owner, jailer of his money.

Flattery, the baseness of the flatterer; deceit of the flattered, and even baseness of both; because their baseness shows that the one who enjoys flattery does not trust in the value of their merits.

Fear initiates all wisdom, and those who have no fear cannot know.

Men are not won over by favors without deeds.

Many defeats have led to consideration, and many victories have been given by recklessness.

Whoever leaves the offended alive, must always fear revenge.

One who does not live securely does not truly live.

It is better to pardon someone who is dying of fear than someone who kills out of fear: because in the former, nature acts without fault; while in the latter, with wrongdoing and fault, the timid and base intellect is at work.