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Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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Courage is the child of prudence, not recklessness.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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Never give advice to someone who asks for money.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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Oh how quickly a vehement desire thinks that there is nothing more than what it thinks!

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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Whenever hatred and love compete, it is love that prevails.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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Either be quiet or say something better than silence.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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What does it matter to make the least mistakes for someone who has achieved the most?

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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I am so afraid that I don't even have the courage to flee.

Erskine Caldwell

Erskine Caldwell

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A good government is like good digestion; while it functions, we hardly perceive it.

George Calinescu

George Calinescu

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A well-defended cause is a just cause.

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

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Every story is nothing more than an endless catastrophe from which we try to emerge as best as possible.

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

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Upon arriving in each new city, the traveler encounters a past of theirs that they didn't know they had: the strangeness of what you are not or no longer possess awaits you at every turn in unfamiliar and unowned places.

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

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Cities, like dreams, are built of desires and fears, even though the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules absurd, their perspectives deceptive, and everything conceals another thing.