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I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
The Jew of Malta · 1593
Julius Caesar · 1599
We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.
Hippolytus · 428 BC
I prefer to be unskilled rather than practised in the lore of foretelling ill.
The Suppliants · 465 BC
Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped, Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.
Titus Andronicus · 1594