Pedro Calderón de la Barca Quotes

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

To conquer and forgive is to conquer twice.

From bad to good they say it's easy to transition; but from bad to worse, I say it's more common.

Blood makes relatives, loyalty makes family.

Fortunate is the man who has time to wait.

To overcome oneself is such a great feat for a man, that only the one who is great can dare to execute it.

The intention makes the grievance.

The traitor is always the defeated one and the loyal one is the victor.

Those who live without thinking, cannot say that they live.

The joys that are lost are greater sorrows.

He who harms knowledge, murders himself.

Death is always early and does not forgive anyone.