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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.

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Francisco de Quevedo

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What is learned in youth lasts a lifetime.

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Francisco de Quevedo

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Mighty knight is Sir Money.

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

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He who suspects that he always errs is right.

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Criminals do less harm than a bad judge.

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Excess is the poison of reason.

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A single stone can bring down a building.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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