Francisco de quevedo quotes in spanish

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, (14 September 1580 – 8 September 1645) was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era.

Quotes

Quotes reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Martin Hume, Dictionary of quotations (Spanish) (New York: Swan Sonnenschein, 1907)

Politica de Dios (1626)

• In dangers, the king who looks on orders with his eyes.

• The king is a public person, the needs of the realm are his crown.

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Reigning is not an amusement but a task. A bad king is he who enjoys his State, a good one he who serves it.

• It is most unfortunate that the king should err at all: but if he must err, it is less shocking that he should do so on his own account, rather than by the advice of others.

• Happy is he who is born to be a king, if, when he reigns, he shows he deserves to be one.

• You must not trust ministers who are very proud of having clean hands [...]. Thieves there are who rob with their feet,