" On Actors and Acting" http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/RoundTable/ActorsActing.htm (The Examiner, 5 January 1817)
The Round Table (1815-1817)
¿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)
As quoted in The World's Best Thoughts on Life & Living (1981) compiled by Eugene Raudsepp; also quoted in The Michigan Daily http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1998/nov/11-10-98/arts/arts2.html (10 November 1998)
“Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.”
Nihil aliud esse ebrietatem quam voluntariam insaniam.
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXXIII: On Drunkenness, Line 18.
“That was the end of our voluntary searchings in the caverns of dream.”
Fiction, Hypnos (1922)
Context: That was the end of our voluntary searchings in the caverns of dream. Awed, shaken, and portentous, my friend who had been beyond the barrier warned me that we must never venture within those realms again.
Explaining why Dr. Frankenstein left the University
Frankenstein (1931)
“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”
Speech on the twenty-third anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. (April 1885).
1880s
Variant: The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
“Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.”
