Gregorio Marañón

To live is not only to exist, but to exist and create, to know how to enjoy and suffer, and not to sleep without dreaming. To rest is to begin to die.

You won't know how much I'm worth until I can't be everything I am when I'm with you.

Almost always, when a marriage is going well, it's because one of the spouses is in charge and the other obeys.

The crowd has always been driven by gestures rather than ideas throughout history. The crowd never reasons.

You have more qualities than you think; but to know if the coins are made of good gold, they must be rolled, circulated. Spend your treasure.

Every man carries a ghost of a woman, not in the imagination that would then be easy to expel; but circulating in his blood, and every woman a more or less concrete ghost of a man.

The capacity for enthusiasm is a sign of spiritual health.

Work without hurry is the greatest rest for the body.

If sorrow doesn't die, it is killed.

Competitions are the bloodiest national spectacle after bullfighting.

Speed, which is a virtue, begets a vice, which is haste.

Happiness is a fundamentally negative feeling: the absence of pain.