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“Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.”
Ovid
“The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.”
Ovid
“Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.”
Ovid
“The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.”
Ovid
“Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.”
Ovid
“The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.”
Ovid
“The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.”
Ovid
“All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.”
Ovid
“Most safely shall you tread the middle path.”
Ovid
“He who says o'er much I love not is in love.”
Ovid
“He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.”
Ovid
“Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.”
Ovid
“Love is a credulous thing.”
Ovid
“Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
William Shakespeare
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
William Shakespeare
“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
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
William Shakespeare
“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
William Shakespeare
“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
William Shakespeare
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
William Shakespeare
“The wheel is come full circle.”
William Shakespeare
“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”
William Shakespeare
“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”
William Shakespeare
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones”
William Shakespeare
“If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?”
William Shakespeare
“Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.”
William Shakespeare
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
William Shakespeare
“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
William Shakespeare
“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
William Shakespeare
“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
William Shakespeare