El Sueno de las Calaveras
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Since I teach how to kill I may well claim to be called Galen; and if my wounds were to ride on mule back they would pass for bad doctors.
— Francisco de Quevedo
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Since I teach how to kill I may well claim to be called Galen; and if my wounds were to ride on mule back they would pass for bad doctors." in the context of "El Sueno de las Calaveras" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Francisco de Quevedo" (Quotes: Quotes reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Martin Hume, Dictionary of quotations (Spanish) (New York: Swan Sonnenschein, 1907), Sueños y discursos (1627))
The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
About Francisco de 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.
About Francisco de 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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