Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?
The best apology against false accusers is silence.
But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.