Pedro Calderon de la Barca
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
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.
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.Collection: Love
In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees itCollection: Lying
For man's greatest crime is to have been born.Collection: Men
All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.Collection: Dream
And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of sleep, Be all a dream in that eternal life To which we wake not till we sleep in deathCollection: Dream
The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.Collection: Heart
Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?Collection: Speak No Evil
They say that the best counsel is that of woman.Collection: Advice
The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox.Collection: Foxes
How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Fall
If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.Collection: Pretty Woman
No windows give a better view than those a man brings with him in his head, not asking for tickets of admission, since at all functions, festivals, or feasts he looks out with the same nice self-composure.Collection: Nice
Restless sunflower; cease to move.Collection: Moving
Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.Collection: Dream
Even in dreams doing good is not wasted.Collection: Dream
Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or forgotten, self; -Since Dreaming, Madness, Passion, are akin In missing each that salutory rein Of reason, and the grinding will of man.Collection: Dream
A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.Collection: Two
A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry.Collection: Stronger
Great events have sent before them their announcements.Collection: Events
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.Collection: Kings
All just laws condemn cruelty.Collection: Law
All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.Collection: Time
The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.Collection: Beauty
Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born.Collection: Grief
No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.Collection: Real
At the point when affection is not frenzy, it is not adore.Collection: Affection
Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.Collection: Pain