Pedro Calderón de la Barca Quote

The fall should not take away the glory of having climbed.

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.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

To conquer and forgive is to conquer twice.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Blood makes relatives, loyalty makes family.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Fortunate is the man who has time to wait.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

The intention makes the grievance.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

The joys that are lost are greater sorrows.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

He who harms knowledge, murders himself.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Death is always early and does not forgive anyone.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca