Quotes from Celestina

Quotations follow the Peter Bush translation (Penguin Classics, 2009) — our recommended edition.

1. 2

   When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.

2. 3

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

3. 4

   The first step toward healing is to know the disease.

4. 5

   In this world there are no true friends. Fortune rules, and fortune is blind.

5. 6

   The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.

6. 7

   Goods which are not shared are not goods.

7. 8

   The use of riches is better than their possession.

8. 9

   Riches do not make one rich but busy.

9. 10

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