Pedro Calderón de la Barca

“One cannot jest with love.”

“A good action is never lost.”

“Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled.”

“To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.”

“These flowers, which were splendour and joy, waking at the dawn of the morning, will be in the evening a vain pity, sleeping in the arms of the cold night.”

“The greatest crime of man is to have been born.”

“For even in dreams, doing good is not wasted.”

“Honor is the patrimony of the soul.”

“Power is never good, unless he be good that has it.”

“Love is a tyrant, who spares no one.”

“To be silent is not to say nothing.”

“He who has love in his heart has spurs in his sides.”

“For in this world, Segismundo, all who live are dreaming.”

“Since it is a dream, let us dream.”

“Man dreams what he is, and awakens.”

“What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction, and the greatest good is small; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.”

“For we are in such a strange world, that to live is only to dream.”