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Shakespeare:
- Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
- Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- To be wise, and love,exceeds man's might.
- Things won are done; Joy's soul lies in the doing.
- 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
- Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- He that dies pays all debts.
- But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
- Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
- Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when the are gone.
- Oh! how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
- O! beware, my loard, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good friends.
- Lord! we know what we are, but know not what we may be.
- Crabbed age and youth cannot live together;
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.
- When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten
to see a dead Indian.
- I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft omterred with their bones.
- For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
- How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
- But be not afraid of greatness;some men are born great, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them.
- Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
- It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not
marking, that I am troubled withal.
- The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!
Where gott'st thou that goose look?
- We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
- O! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven;
Keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
- I pray thee, understand a plain man in his plain meaning.
- Good-night, good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow.
That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.
- When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
- If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
- Friends, Romans, countryman, lend me your ears.
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Socrates:
- It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or
when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.
- I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be
happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Here are Socrates' two simple rules for life:
Know Thyself
Take nothing in Excess.
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Sophocles:
- There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man.
- Do nothing secretlyl for Time sees and hears all things and discloses all.
- Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.
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Sovereign:
- In all things there are three choices:
Yes, No and No Choice, except in this -- I either
choose the truth or I am deceit.
- I must stand up in search of the truth if I don't
I only roll with the flow of the lie and make it stronger.
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