Quotes of Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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You lie — under a mistake — For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face, I now Say what I think.

- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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“ Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. ”

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“ The only time a man can do the right thing is right now. ”

- John Verdon

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- Rainer Maria Rilke

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“ It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ”

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“ It is now how good you are, it’s how good you want to be. ”

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- Helen Fisher

“ If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ Life is a game and true love is a trophy. ”

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“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ”

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“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

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