[Lines by Pedro Caldern de la Barca 1600-1681]
Qu es la vida? Una ilusin,
una sombra, una ficcin,
y el mayor bien es pequeo
que toda la vida es sueo
y los sueos sueos son.
No temis, no, de que os falte
compaa en las desdichas,
pues en duda semejante
de vivir o de morir,
no s cules son ms grandes.
"What is life? An illusion,
a shadow, a fiction,
and the greatest good is worth nothing at all,
for the whole of life is just a dream
and dreams are only dreams.
Don't fear to be alone
in your misfortune,
because I don't know
if there can be greater worries
than that of hovering
between life and death."
