ShakespeareOn the State of Man:"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport." -- Shakespeare, King Lear IV.i "I hold the world but as the world, Gratianio, a stage where every man must play a part, and mine a sad one." -- Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, I.i "I see a man�s life is a tedious one." � Shakespeare, Cymbeline, III.vi "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is wounded with a sleep." -- Shakespeare, The Tempest, IV.i "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages." -- William Shakespeare
On Love and Relationships:"And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays. The more the pity that some home at neighbors will not make them friends" � Shakespeare, A Midsummer�s Night�s Dream, III.i "Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends." � Shakespeare, A Midsummer�s Night�s Dream, V.i "Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity in least speak most, to my capacity." � Shakespeare, A Midsummer�s Night�s Dream, V.i "Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. " -- William Shakespeare, From A Midsummer Night's Dream, I.i (1595-1596) "All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed" -- Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, II.vi "I must uneasy make, lest too light winning make the prize light." -- Shakespeare, The Tempest, I.ii "Affection, thy intention stabs the center. Thou dost make possible things not so held." -- Shakespeare, The Winter�s Tale, I.ii "Love�s reason�s without reason" � Shakespeare, Cymbeline, IV.ii "For I cannot be mine own, not anything to any, if I be not thine. To this I am most constant though destiny say not." -- Shakespeare, The Winter�s Tale, IV.iv
On the Mystery of the Opposite Sex:"For every inch of woman in the world, ay, every dram of woman�s flesh is false if she be." -- Shakespeare, The Winter�s Tale, II.i "Good signors both, when shall we laugh? Say, when? You grow exceeding strange. Must it be so?" -- Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, I.i "Who is�t can read a woman?" � Shakespeare, Cymbeline, V.v
On Deeds:"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." -- William Shakespeare, From The Merchant of Venice (1597) "One good deed dying toungeless slaughters a thousand waiting upon that." -- Shakespeare, The Winter�s Tale, I.ii
On Other Things:"The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. " -- William Shakespeare, From the play A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595-1596) "Temptations have since then been born to�s." -- Shakespeare, The Winter�s Tale, I.ii "If my reason will thereto be obedient, I have reason; if not, my senses, better pleased with madness do bid it welcome." -- Shakespeare, The Winter�s Tale, IV.iv "To lapse in fullness is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood is worse in kings than beggars." � Shakespeare, Cymbeline, III.vi "Plenty and peace breeds cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother" � Shakespeare, Cymbeline, III.vi "All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, as� tis no better reckoned but of those who worship dirty gods." � Shakespeare, Cymbeline, III.vi "Are we not brothers? So man and man should be, but clay and clay differs in dignity whose dust is both alike." � Shakespeare, Cymbeline, IV.ii "Experience, O, thou disprov�st report." � Shakespeare, Cymbeline, IV.ii "Our very eyes are sometimes like our judgements, blind." � Shakespeare, Cymbeline, IV.ii "Let me make men know more valor in me than my habits show." � Shakespeare, Cymbeline, V.i "I will begin the fashion: less without and more within." � Shakespeare, Cymbeline, V.i "Be not, as our fangled world, a garment nobler than that it covers." � Shakespeare, Cymbeline, V.iv "I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good." � Shakespeare, Cymbeline, V.iv "Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't." -- Shakespeare
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