Occupation: Dramatist Birth: January 17, 1600 Death: May 25, 1681
Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born..
Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?.
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….
Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour..
All just laws condemn cruelty..
If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation..
For man's greatest crime is to have been born..
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need..
At the point when affection is not frenzy, it is not adore..
A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two..
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….
When love is not madness, it is not love..
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 ….
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….
A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry..
All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams..
Great events have sent before them their announcements..
Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams..
In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it.
The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth..
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises..