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Jose Ortega y Gasset3 quotes
The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man. — Jose Ortega y Gasset · 1925Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset · 1930A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation. — Jose Ortega y Gasset · 1930Pedro 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 · 1635When love is not madness,
it is not love. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca · 1637Felix Lope de Vega1 quote
There is no greater glory than love
Nor any greater punishment than jealousy. — Felix Lope de Vega · 1632