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The Renaissance115 quotes

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare · 1616 To be or not to be—that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep— No more—and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep— To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. — William Shakespeare · 1616 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 Shakespeare · 1597 What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable; in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals-And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? — William Shakespeare · 1616 Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. — William Shakespeare · 1616 Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. — William Shakespeare · 1616 All 115 quotes →

Classical antiquity32 quotes

For he does not wish to appear the bravest, but to be the bravest. — Aeschylus · 467 BC Mere cleverness is not wisdom. — Euripides · 405 BC For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues. — Sophocles · 442 BC Reason is God's crowning gift to man. — Sophocles · 442 BC How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth! — Sophocles · 430 BC The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. — Sophocles · 430 BC All 32 quotes →