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.
Francisco de Quevedo
View AuthorMany defeats have led to consideration, and many victories have been given by recklessness.
Francisco de Quevedo
View AuthorWhoever leaves the offended alive, must always fear revenge.
Francisco de Quevedo
View AuthorOne who does not live securely does not truly live.
Francisco de Quevedo
View AuthorIt 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.
Francisco de Quevedo
View AuthorTo kill oneself for fear of dying is equally foolish and cowardly.
Francisco de Quevedo
View AuthorDoctors kill and live by killing, and the complaint falls upon the illness.