Pedro Calderón de la Barca Quotes

El traidor no es menester
siendo la traición pasada.

Mas, sea verdad o sueño,
obrar bien es lo que importa.
Si fuere verdad, por serlo;
si no, por ganar amigos
para cuando despertemos.

What is life? A madness
What is life? Illusion,
a shadow, a fiction,
and the greatest good means little;
for life is but a dream,
and the dreams, they too are dreams.

The treason past, the traitor is no longer needed.

What surprises you, if a dream taught me this wisdom, and if I still fear I may wake up and find myself once more confined in prison? And even if this should not happen, merely to dream it is enough. For this I have come to know, that all human happiness finally ceases, like a dream.

Que si a la Ley no te ajustas, quedó en la cuna labrada la materia de la tumba.

If you cannot reconcile yourself to the law, remain in the cradle.