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PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA
Spanish dramatist
(1600 - 1681)

A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.
      - [Charity]

All just laws condemn cruelty.
      - [Cruelty]

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.
      - [Time]

At the morning hour, when the half-awakened sun, trampling down the lingering shadows of the west, spreads his ruby-tinted tresses over jessamines and roses, drying with cloths of gold Aurora's tears of mingled fire and snow, which the sun's rays converted into pearls.
      - [Morning]

Great events have sent before them their announcements.
      - [Events]

Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born.
      - [Grief]

How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!
      - [World]

Its brightness, mighty divinity! has a fleeting empire over the day, giving gladness to the fields, color to the flowers, the season of the loves, harmonious hour of wakening birds.
      - [Morning]

Never confide your secrets to paper; it is like throwing a stone in the air; and if you know who throws the stone, you do not know where it may fall.
      - [Secrecy]

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 the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.
      - [Virtue]

The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.
      - [Beauty]

The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox.
      - [Cunning]

The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.
      - [Heart]

The ultimate reason of kings. [War.]
  [Sp., Ultima razon de reges.]
      - [War]

You lie--under a mistake--
  For this is the most civil sort of lie
    That can be given to a man's face, I now
      Say what I think.
      - El Magico Prodigioso (sc. 1),
        translation by Shelley [Lying]

They say that the best counsel is that of woman.
  [Sp., Dicen, que el primer consejo
    Ha de ser de la muger.]
      - El Medico de su Honra (I, 2) [Advice]

A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry.
  [Sp., Una muger no tiene.
    Valor para el consejo, y la conviene Casarse.]
      - El Purgatorio de Sans Patricio (III, 4)
        [Matrimony]

Light-enchanted sunflower, thou
  Who gazest ever true and tender
    On the sun's revolving splendour.
      - Magico Prodigioso (sc. 3),
        (Shelley's translation) [Sunflowers]

Restless sunflower; cease to move.
      - Magico Prodigioso (sc. 3),
        (Shelley's translation) [Sunflowers]


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