1635

Explore 3 quotes from the year 1635

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is of slight worth, as all life is a dream, and dreams are dreams.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Life is a Dream

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Topic

Nature of life Life Dreams

Speaker

Sigismund

Author

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Source

Life is a Dream

Medium

Play

Statement Type

Question

Language

Spanish

Time

1635 1630s 17th century

Era

Spanish Golden Age

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. La vida es sueño [Life Is a Dream]. 1635, Madrid, Spain, act 2.

Current Citation

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. Life is a Dream. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 2.

The road to resolution lies by doubt:
The next way home's the farthest way about.

Francis Quarles

Emblems

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Topic

Doubt and skepticism

Author

Francis Quarles

Source

Emblems

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1635 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Quarles, Francis. Emblemes, Divine and Moral. London, 1635, bk. 4, emblem 2.

We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil;
We tire the night in thought, the day in toil.

Francis Quarles

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Topic

Work Fatigue

Author

Francis Quarles

Source

Emblems

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1635 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Quarles, Francis. Emblemes, Divine and Moral. London, 1635, bk. 2, emblem 2.