Occupation: Dramatist Birth: January 17, 1600 Death: May 25, 1681
No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by ….
No windows give a better view than those a man brings with him in his head, not asking for tickets of admission, since at all functions, festivals, o….
In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it.
For man's greatest crime is to have been born..
The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth..
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….
And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of sleep, Be all a d….
If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation..
Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams..
A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two..
All just laws condemn cruelty..
Even in dreams doing good is not wasted..
All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams..
A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry..
At the point when affection is not frenzy, it is not adore..
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 th….
Great events have sent before them their announcements..
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need..
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises..
Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour..
When love is not madness, it is not love..