“In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.”
Nam in omni adversitate fortunae infelicissimum est genus infortunii fuisse felicem.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480) philosopher of the early 6th century
Prose IV, line 2
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book II
“If you cannot reconcile yourself to the law, remain in the cradle.”
Pedro Calderón de la Barca Life is a Dream
Que si a la Ley no te ajustas, quedó en la cuna labrada la materia de la tumba.
Segismundo, Act I, l. 956-958.
La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream)
Pedro Calderón de la Barca Life is a Dream
¿Qué es la vida? Un frenesí.
¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,
una sombra, una ficción,
y el mayor bien es pequeño;
que toda la vida es sueño,
y los sueños, sueños son.
Variant:
What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion,
A shadow, a delirium, a fiction.
The greatest good's but little, and this life
Is but a dream, and dreams are only dreams.
(trans. Roy Campbell)
Segismundo, Act II, l. 1195.
La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream)
“The treason past, the traitor is no longer needed.”
Pedro Calderón de la Barca Life is a Dream
El traidor no es menester
siendo la traición pasada.
Segismundo, Act III, l. 1109.
La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream)
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681) Spanish dramatist
Éstas que fueron pompa y alegría<br>despertando al albor de la mañana,<br>a la tarde serán lástima vana<br>durmiendo en brazos de la noche fría. <br class="br"> A las flores ("Éstas, que fueron pompa y alegría") http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/A_las_flores_%28Calder%C3%B3n_de_la_Barca%29.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca Life is a Dream
¿Qué os espanta,
si fue mi maestro un sueño,
y estoy temiendo, en mis ansias,
que he de despertar y hallarme
otra vez en mi cerrada
prisión? Y cuando no sea,
el soñarlo sólo basta;
pues así llegué a saber
que toda la dicha humana,
en fin, pasa como sueño.
Segismundo, Act III, l. 1114.
La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream)
“For man's greatest crime is to have been born.”
Pedro Calderón de la Barca Life is a Dream
Pues el delito mayor
Del hombre es haber nacido.
Segismundo, Act I, Scene II.
La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream)
Variant: Since man's greatest crime on earth
Is the fatal fact of birth.
(trans. Denis MacCarthy)
Pedro Calderón de la Barca Life is a Dream
Mas, sea verdad o sueño,
obrar bien es lo que importa.
Si fuere verdad, por serlo;
si no, por ganar amigos
para cuando despertemos.
Segismundo, Act III, l. 236.
La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream)
“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”
Barbra Streisand (1942) American singer, actress, writer, film producer, and director
“Life's too short. Start with Dessert!”
Barbra Streisand (1942) American singer, actress, writer, film producer, and director
Barbra Streisand (1942) American singer, actress, writer, film producer, and director
Playboy interview (1977), as quoted in No Glass Slipper : Surviving and Conquering Painful Life Experiences (2006), p. 32
Context: To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do — bad or good.
Carlo Rubbia (1934) Italian particle physicist
The Brazilian magazine Veja asked Carlo Rubbia, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, “Do you believe in God?
Source: Evolution Is Not a Fact, Awake! magazine, 1998, 8/8.
