Fernando de Rojas
Fernando de Rojas (c. 1465 – April 1541) was a Spanish author and playwright.
Quotes
[edit]- It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous.
- Reported in Maturin M. Ballou (ed.) Pearls of Thought (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1881) p. 73
La Celestina (1499)
[edit]- Translations reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 14th ed. (1968)
- Que los bienes, si no son comunicados, no son bienes.
- Goods which are not shared are not goods.
- Act I
- Mejor es el vso de las riquezas que la possesion dellas.
- The use of riches is better than their possession.
- Act II
- No sabes que el primer escalon de locura es creerse ser sciente?
- The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.
- Act II
- Las riquezas no hazen rico: mas ocupado.
- Riches do not make one rich but busy.
- Act IV
- Ninguno es tan viejo que no pueda viuir vn ano: ni tan mozo que oy no pudiesse morir.
- No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.
- Act IV
- Que quando el alto dios da la llaga: tras ella embia el remedio.
- When God wounds from on high he will follow with the remedy.
- Act X
- Que quando vna puerta se cierra otra suele abrir la fortuna.
- When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.
- Act XV
