Pedro Calderón de la Barca Quotes
1600–1681 Spain
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (January 17, 1600 – May 25, 1681) was a Spanish dramatist and poet.
Also known as: Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, De la Barca, Pedro Calderón
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For companionship in woes gives alleviation, even though it be that of an enemy.
Love that is not madness is not love.
For in a firm mind there is always found an unchanged countenance for good and evil.
As the day sinks cool and fresh into the tomb, to be the guest of the sea-god, good-night to you.
Luckless Polonia, the dower of great beauty has always been misfortune; since happiness and beauty do not agree together.
For such is Fortune, that scarcely has she done a good when an evil follows.
The noble yields to the weight of years, for conquest is not difficult for time.
Wise friends are the best book of life, because they teach with voice and looks.
Knows, Don Arias, that who has loved well will never seek the loved one's ill.
For indeed a good action is a treasure guarded for the doer's need.
Simple truth should live naked in imitation of honest silence.
Both love and friendship are inferior to loyalty and honour.
Honour is a sacred place, which the soul alone inhabits.
To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's."
What does loveliness avail (if indeed it is mine), if joy of heart fail me, if good fortune fail me?
Such is the fickleness of the crowd, that the designs of to-day they proceed to abandon on the morrow.
Since often occupation, if it does not make the hours less short, makes their flight appear the shorter.
In the reverses of the lover, by the lightest winds that blow, the breast is often confessed in the face.
One day calls to another, and thus sorrow follows sorrow, and pains with pains intertwine.
For the sun, though it light a palace, does not disdain to fall with its golden woof on the straw-thatched cottage-roof.