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Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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To be a tyrant is not to be, but to cease to be, and to make everyone else cease to be.

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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In the most illustrious and glorious captains and emperors of the world, study and war have preserved their close relationship, and military art has allied itself with learning. The sword has not disdained the pen in such minds. A learned symbol of this truth is the arrow: with the pen, the iron that will strike flies.

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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What is learned in youth lasts a lifetime.

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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He who suspects that he always errs is right.

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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Criminals do less harm than a bad judge.

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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A single stone can bring down a building.

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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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.