Fernando de Rojas

thumb|Fernando de Rojas Fernando de Rojas (c. 1465 – April 1541) was a Spanish author and playwright. Quotes 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) 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 External links Category:Playwrights from Spain Category:Novelists from Spain Category:1460s births Category:1541 deaths