Fernando de Rojas

Fernando de Rojas (c. 1465 – April 1541) was a Spanish author and playwright.

Fernando de Rojas

Quotes

La Celestina (1499)

• Goods which are not shared are not goods.
  • Act I.

• The use of riches is better than their possession.
  • Act II.

• The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.
  • Act II.

• Riches do not make one rich but busy.
  • Act IV.

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

• When God wounds from on high he will follow with the remedy.
  • Act X.

• When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.
  • Act XV.