Pedro Calderon
Pedro Calderon
Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño, usually referred as Pedro Calderón de la Barca, was a dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age. During certain periods of his life he was also a soldier and a Roman Catholic priest. Born when the Spanish Golden Age theatre was being defined by Lope de Vega, he developed it further, his work being regarded as the culmination of the Spanish Baroque theatre...
dream sleep night
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 death
pain lying loss
Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.
two charity sake
A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.
speak-no-evil thee deserve
Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?
pretty-woman her-beauty needs
If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.
sweet law bird
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
dream treasure life-is
Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.
affection adore frenzy
At the point when affection is not frenzy, it is not adore.
time years yield
All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.
real perfect crucible
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.
needs treasure doers
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
beauty together agree
The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.
heart divine
The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.
victory may gains
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.