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Miguel de Cervantes14 quotes

Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1615 I was so free with him as not to mince the matter. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605 Can we ever have too much of a good thing? — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605 You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605 That's the nature of women... Not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605 Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; "Tis meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot." Tis the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man even. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1615 All 14 quotes →

Jose Ortega y Gasset3 quotes

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man. — Jose Ortega y Gasset · 1925 Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset · 1930 A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation. — Jose Ortega y Gasset · 1930

Pedro Calderon de la Barca2 quotes

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is of slight worth, as all life is a dream, and dreams are dreams. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca · 1635 When love is not madness, it is not love. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca · 1637

Felix Lope de Vega1 quote

There is no greater glory than love Nor any greater punishment than jealousy. — Felix Lope de Vega · 1632