Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Dramatist

1600-01-17

Quotes by Pedro Calderon de la Barca

• These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

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• What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

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• A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

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• 'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

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