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Love2 quotes
When love is not madness,
it is not love. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca · 1637There is no greater glory than love
Nor any greater punishment than jealousy. — Felix Lope de Vega · 1632Sleep2 quotes
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 · 1615Blessed be he that invented sleep. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1615Candor1 quote
I was so free with him as not to mince the matter. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605Changing of generations1 quote
A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation. — Jose Ortega y Gasset · 1930Civilization1 quote
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset · 1930Diligence1 quote
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never led to good intention's goal. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1615Discipline1 quote
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1613Dreams1 quote
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 · 1635Duality of man1 quote
He's a muddle-headed fool, with frequent lucid intervals. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1615Eternal life1 quote
We cannot all be friars, and many are the ways by which God leads his own to eternal life. Knight-errantry is religion. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1615Everyone's a critic1 quote
There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605Excess1 quote
Can we ever have too much of a good thing? — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605Fortune1 quote
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never led to good intention's goal. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1615God and man1 quote
We cannot all be friars, and many are the ways by which God leads his own to eternal life. Knight-errantry is religion. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1615Gossip1 quote
There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605Hard work1 quote
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never led to good intention's goal. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1615Home1 quote
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605Honesty1 quote
I was so free with him as not to mince the matter. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605Idleness1 quote
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never led to good intention's goal. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1615Jealousy1 quote
There is no greater glory than love
Nor any greater punishment than jealousy. — Felix Lope de Vega · 1632Language1 quote
The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man. — Jose Ortega y Gasset · 1925Life1 quote
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 · 1635Love and war1 quote
Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1615Monopoly on violence1 quote
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset · 1930Nature of life1 quote
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 · 1635Nature of love1 quote
When love is not madness,
it is not love. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca · 1637Nature of women1 quote
That's the nature of women... Not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1605Political theory1 quote
A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation. — Jose Ortega y Gasset · 1930Revolution1 quote
A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation. — Jose Ortega y Gasset · 1930Rich vs. poor1 quote
There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say: the haves and the have-nots. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1615