Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Pedro Caldern de la Barca (January 17, 1600 May 25, 1681), Spanish dramatist and poet, was born in Madrid. His mother, who was of Flemish descent, died in 1610; his father, who was secretary to the treasury, died in 1615. Caldern was educated at the Jesuit College in Madrid with a view to taking orders and accepting a family living; abandoning this project, he studied law at Salamanca.
5 Quotes
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca