11 Quotes by Fernando De Rojas

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.

When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.

The use of riches is better than their possession.

Riches do not make one rich but busy.

Goods which are not shared are not goods.

A quien dices tu secreto das tu libertad.

The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.

No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.

It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous.