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The Renaissance261 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 · 1616To 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 · 1616Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare · 1600What 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 · 1616Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath. — William Shakespeare · 1599Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. — William Shakespeare · 1616All 261 quotes →Classical antiquity61 quotes
There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man. — Sophocles · 441 BCNo guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. — Pleusicles · 200 BCFor he does not wish to appear the bravest, but to be the bravest. — Aeschylus · 467 BCThe old are in a second childhood. — Aristophanes · 423 BCMere cleverness is not wisdom. — Euripides · 405 BCFor God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues. — Sophocles · 442 BCAll 61 quotes →Age of Enlightenment5 quotes
With love, you see, even too much is not enough. — Pierre Beaumarchais · 1784Fools are here below for our minor pleasures. — Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset · 1747Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love all year round madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals. — Pierre Beaumarchais · 1784The more foreigners I saw, the more I loved my homeland. — Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy · 1765Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1768Spanish Golden Age3 quotes
What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is of slight worth, as all life is a dream, and dreams are dreams. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca · 1635When love is not madness,
it is not love. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca · 1637There is no greater glory than love
Nor any greater punishment than jealousy. — Felix Lope de Vega · 1632