Treatise · Political literature · Philosophical literatureGod is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.Niccolo MachiavelliThe Prince · 1532★ 7.9
Tragedy (play)My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep. The more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.William Shakespeare1597★ 7.8
Play · Comedy (play)Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.William ShakespeareMuch Ado About Nothing · 1600★ 7.8
Play · Comedy (play)Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599★ 7.2
Play · History (play)See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!William ShakespeareHenry IV, Part 2 · 1597★ 7.1
Scientific literatureFinally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if we only face the facts, as they say, "with both eyes open."Nicolaus CopernicusOn the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres · 1543★ 7.0
Play · History (play) · Tragedy (play)Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.William ShakespeareJulius Caesar · 1599★ 7.0
Play · History (play)I am not in the roll of common men.William ShakespeareHenry IV, Part 1 · 1597★ 7.0
Play · History (play)There lives not three good men unhanged in England, and one of them is fat and grows old.William ShakespeareHenry IV, Part 1 · 1597★ 7.0
PoemHappy is he who, like Ulysses, has made a glorious voyage.Joachim du BellayLes Regrets · 1558★ 6.9
Play · History (play) · Tragedy (play)There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.William ShakespeareJulius Caesar · 1599★ 6.4
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.Martin Luther1569★ 6.3
Poem · Narrative poemLove comforteth like sunshine after rain.William ShakespeareVenus and Adonis · 1593★ 6.3
Political literature · Philosophical literatureWhoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasions for it.Niccolo MachiavelliDiscourses on Livy · 1531★ 6.2
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but-more frequently than not-struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.Martin Luther1569★ 6.2
Play · Comedy (play)Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.William ShakespeareThe Taming of the Shrew · 1594★ 6.1
Play · Comedy (play)Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.William ShakespeareMuch Ado About Nothing · 1600★ 5.7
Tragedy (play)Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say “Good night” till it be morrow.William Shakespeare1597★ 5.6
Play · History (play) · Tragedy (play)Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.William ShakespeareJulius Caesar · 1599★ 5.6
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