Mariano José de Larra, writer, journalist, literary and political critic, stands on the most revered altar of the Literary romanticism Spanish with José de Espronceda, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and Rosalía de Castro. And I was only 27 when committed suicide on February 13, 1837. In his memory I select 30 of his phrases that, reading them with today's eyes, have not lost any validity.
- Hypocrisy always triumphs in society!
- Blessed are those who do not speak; because they understand each other.
- Writing in Madrid is crying, it is looking for a voice without finding it, as in an overwhelming and violent nightmare.
- Blessed is everyone to whom the woman says "I don't want to", because he, at least, hears the truth.
- The heart of man needs to believe something, and believes lies when it does not find truths to believe.
- It is easier to deny things than to find out about them.
- On the point of love I have another superstition: I imagine that the greatest misfortune that can happen to a man is that a woman tells him that she loves him.
- The audience feels en masse and gathered in a very different way than each of its particular individuals.
- The feeling is a delicate flower, to touch it is to wither it.
- Talent should not be used to know and say everything, but to know what to say about what is known.
- In this sad country, if a shoemaker wants to make a bottle and it turns out badly, then they won't let him make shoes.
- In marriage it is necessary to have qualities that endure, that last, and the great passions pass quickly; while a peaceful condition at all times is good.
- In view of the fact that I do not have a great memory, a circumstance that does not stop contributing to this kind of happiness that I have formed within myself ...
- Performance is glory and not weakness, and he is blessed who can obey at least one beautiful woman.
- Where do the Spanish people see their main danger, the most imminent? In power left by a misunderstood tolerance.
- It is easier to deny things than to find out about them.
- There are things that have no solution, and they are the most.
- Generally, it can be assured that there is nothing more terrible in society than the treatment of people who feel they have some superiority over their peers.
- Writing in Madrid is crying, it is looking for a voice without finding it, as in an overwhelming and violent nightmare.
- The difference between fools and talented men is usually only that the former speak nonsense and the latter do it.
- There are some men who do not say what they think and others who think too much what they say.
- Circumstances ... meaningless words with which man tries to unload responsibility for his follies on ideal beings.
- Modesty is nothing other than pride dressed in a mask.
- Relentless law of nature: either devour, or be devoured. Peoples and individuals, or victims or executioners.
- Authors have always said in their forewords and have come to believe it themselves, that they write for the public; it would not be bad if they were disappointed in this error. The unread and the whistled evidently write to themselves; the applauded and celebrated write for their interest, sometimes for their glory; but always for himself.
- The people of Madrid come to the circus to see an animal as good as it is harassed, which deals with two dozen beasts disguised as men.
- The longest-lasting loves are those in which one of the two lovers is extraordinarily jealous.
- Many things admire me in this world: this proves that my soul must belong to the vulgar class, to the right middle of souls; only the very superior, or the very stupid, are given not to admire at all.
- My heart is just another tomb. Who has died in it? Let's read. Dreadful sign! Here lies hope!
- Is it not read in this country because it is not written, or is it not written because it is not read? That brief doubt is offered to me for today, and nothing more. A terrible and sad thing it seems to me to write what is not to be read.