Fernando de Rojas quotes
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“When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.”
-- Fernando de RojasSource : "La Celestina". Book by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.
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“Goods which are not shared are not goods.”
-- Fernando de RojasSource : "La Celestina". Play by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.
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“O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.”
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“The use of riches is better than their possession.”
-- Fernando de RojasSource : "La Celestina". Book by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.
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“The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.”
-- Fernando de RojasSource : "La Celestina". Book by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.
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“No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.”
-- Fernando de RojasSource : "La Celestina". Book by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.
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“When God wounds from on high he will follow with the remedy.”
-- Fernando de RojasSource : "La Celestina". Book by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.
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“Riches do not make one rich but busy.”
-- Fernando de RojasSource : "La Celestina". Play by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.
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“It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous.”
-- Fernando de Rojas
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Source : "Knight's Treasury of Illustrations". Book by Walter B. Knight, p. 149, 1956.
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“Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.”
Source : 'The Garden of Kama' (1901) 'Less than the Dust'
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“You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.”
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“Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.”
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“Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.”
Source : Song: Diamonds on the Inside, 2003
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