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Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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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.

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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The advice of chastisement most of the time comes late.

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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Virtue envied is virtue doubly prized.

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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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.

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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Men are not won over by favors without deeds.

Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo

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