Pedro Calderon De La Barca Quotes
Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour.
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it
But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?
Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.
Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born.
A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry.
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.
If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.
Never confide your secrets to paper; it is like throwing a stone in the air; and if you know who throws the stone, you do not know where it may fall.
To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's.
All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.
