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Pedro Calderon de la Barca [1600-1681] Spanish

Rank: 101
Dramatist

Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño, usually referred as Pedro Calderón de la Barca, was a dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age.

Dreams, Nature, Good, Life, Love, Morning, War

Quote	Tags	Rank
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.	Nature	101
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.	Dreams, Good, Life	102
When love is not madness, it is not love.	Love	103
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.	War	104
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?	Nature	105
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.	Morning, Nature	106
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.	Dreams	107
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.		108
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.		109
'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.		110
For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.	Dreams	111

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