[Lines by Pedro Calder?n de la Barca 1600-1681]
Qu? es la vida? Una ilusi?n,
una sombra, una ficci?n,
y el mayor bien es peque?o
que toda la vida es sue?o
y los sue?os sue?os son.
No tem?is, no, de que os falte
compa??a en las desdichas,
pues en duda semejante
de vivir o de morir,
no s? cu?les son m?s 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 d**h."