A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time's deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
That old bald cheater, Time.
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.