[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."