Francisco de Quevedo
View AuthorIt 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.
Francisco de Quevedo
View AuthorAstrology 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.
Francisco de Quevedo
View AuthorLife is a pain in which the pain of death begins, and it lasts as long as life does.
Francisco de Quevedo
View AuthorThe advice of chastisement most of the time comes late.
Francisco de Quevedo
View AuthorLove is the ultimate philosophy of the earth and the sky.
Francisco de Quevedo
View AuthorJustice is a constant and perpetual willingness to give each one what is due to them.
Francisco de Quevedo
View AuthorWar is lifelong in men, because life is war, and to live and to fight are the same thing.
Francisco de Quevedo
View AuthorVirtue envied is virtue doubly prized.
Francisco de Quevedo
View AuthorThe miser visits his treasure to remind himself that he is its owner, jailer of his money.
Francisco de Quevedo
View AuthorFlattery, 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.
Francisco de Quevedo
View AuthorFear initiates all wisdom, and those who have no fear cannot know.
Francisco de Quevedo
View AuthorMen are not won over by favors without deeds.