The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.
William ShakespeareI hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
William ShakespeareAll his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.
William Shakespeare