Pedro Calderon de la Barca Quotes

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

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.

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

For man's greatest crime is to have been born.

one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it

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

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.