Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.
Fate's such a shrewish thing.
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.
Words writ in waters.