You must not trust ministers who are very proud of having c… - Francisco Quevedo

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

Francisco Quevedo

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About Francisco Quevedo

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

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Native Name: Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas

Alternative Names: Quevedo • Francisco de Quevedo • Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas • Quevedo y Villegas • Francisco De Quevedo

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

The best sign of a man's goodness is neither to fear nor to owe anything, and the clearest sign of his badness is neither to fear nor to pay.

In fact the world is all agreed and calls commodity honour; so that men need only proclaim that they are honourable with- out being so to mock at the world.

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