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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was not only a masterful playwright and poet but also a profound philosopher who explored the depths of human nature, morality, and existence. Through his works, Shakespeare delved into the complexities of ambition, love, power, and the human condition, often reflecting on the transient nature of life and the inevitability of fate. His philosophy emphasized the dualities of good and evil, the conflict between reason and passion, and the consequences of human actions. In plays like Hamlet and King Lear, he questioned the nature of truth and reality, while in The Tempest and Macbeth, he explored themes of destiny and free will. Shakespeare’s works are rich with introspection, offering timeless wisdom on the struggles of the human soul and the pursuit of meaning in an often chaotic world.

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Inspiration & Motivation
  • “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” — Measure for Measure
  • “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” — Twelfth Night
  • “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” — Julius Caesar
  • “To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.” — Henry VIII
  • “Be not afraid of greatness.” — Twelfth Night
  • “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” — The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • “The better part of Valour, is Discretion.” — Henry IV, Part 1
  • “Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.” — Romeo and Juliet
  • “The golden age is before us, not behind us.” — The Tempest
  • “Sweet are the uses of adversity.” — As You Like It
Health
  • “And let it be more than health to your good feature.” — As You Like It
  • “Unquiet meals make ill digestions.” — The Comedy of Errors
  • “In delay there lies no plenty.” — Twelfth Night
  • “The earth has music for those who listen.” — The Tempest
  • “Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!” — Macbeth
  • “The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” — Hamlet
  • “A light heart lives long.” — Love’s Labour’s Lost
  • “Throw physic to the dogs; I’ll none of it.” — Macbeth
  • “By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.” — Cymbeline
  • “The patient must minister to himself.” — Macbeth
Wealth
  • “All that glisters is not gold.” — The Merchant of Venice
  • “Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.” — Hamlet
  • “For I can raise no money by vile means.” — Henry IV, Part 1
  • “Who steals my purse steals trash.” — Othello
  • “You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.” — The Merchant of Venice
  • “Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that’s put to use more gold begets.” — Venus and Adonis
  • “Put money in thy purse.” — Othello
  • “The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.” — Othello
  • “O, what a world of vile ill-favoured faults looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!” — The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • “Gold buys admittance; gold and titles pure.” — The Merry Wives of Windsor
Life
  • “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” — As You Like It
  • “To be, or not to be, that is the question.” — Hamlet
  • “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” — Julius Caesar
  • “The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.” — Measure for Measure
  • “Out, out brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow.” — Macbeth
  • “What a piece of work is man!” — Hamlet
  • “Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.” — King John
  • “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” — The Tempest
  • “When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.” — Hamlet
  • “The course of true love never did run smooth.” — A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Success
  • “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.” — Julius Caesar
  • “Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.” — King Lear
  • “I wish you all the joy that you can wish.” — The Merchant of Venice
  • “Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.” — Othello
  • “The readiness is all.” — Hamlet
  • “Who seeks, and will not take when once ’tis offered, shall never find it more.” — Antony and Cleopatra
  • “Nothing will come of nothing.” — King Lear
  • “Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.” — Henry VI, Part 3
  • “If it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.” — Henry V
  • “Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.” — Julius Caesar
Wisdom
  • “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” — As You Like It
  • “Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.” — Hamlet
  • “Brevity is the soul of wit.” — Hamlet
  • “There is no darkness but ignorance.” — Twelfth Night
  • “Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.” — Henry IV, Part 1
  • “I would not wish any companion in the world but you.” — The Tempest
  • “Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.” — Henry VI, Part 3
  • “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” — The Merchant of Venice
  • “What’s done cannot be undone.” — Macbeth
  • “No legacy is so rich as honesty.” — All’s Well That Ends Well
Beauty
  • “Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye.” — Love’s Labour’s Lost
  • “Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good.” — The Passionate Pilgrim
  • “My love is thine to teach. Teach it but how, and thou shalt see how apt it is to learn.” — A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” — Sonnet 18
  • “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” — A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • “The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.” — Othello
  • “Beauty lives with kindness.” — The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • “Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises.” — All’s Well That Ends Well
  • “The more I see, the less I know for sure.” — As You Like It
  • “What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!” — Hamlet
Love
  • “The course of true love never did run smooth.” — A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • “If music be the food of love, play on.” — Twelfth Night
  • “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” — All’s Well That Ends Well
  • “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.” — Sonnet 116
  • “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.” — Romeo and Juliet
  • “I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?” — Much Ado About Nothing
  • “They do not love that do not show their love.” — Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.” — A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • “The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.” — As You Like It
  • “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” — Romeo and Juliet
Happiness
  • “There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.” — Much Ado About Nothing
  • “Joy’s soul lies in the doing.” — Troilus and Cressida
  • “Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.” — Henry VIII
  • “Let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me.” — Much Ado About Nothing
  • “How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.” — The Merchant of Venice
  • “The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.” — Othello
  • “To me, fair friend, you never can be old.” — Sonnet 104
  • “Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.” — The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • “A merry heart goes all the day, your sad tires in a mile-a.” — The Winter’s Tale
  • “My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.” — Henry VI, Part 3
Miscellaneous
  • “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” — Hamlet
  • “The better part of Valour, is Discretion.” — Henry IV, Part 1
  • “No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en.” — The Taming of the Shrew
  • “Men of few words are the best men.” — Henry V
  • “A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.” — Henry IV, Part 2
  • “O, it is excellent to have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.” — Measure for Measure
  • “The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.” — Henry V
  • “He is well paid that is well satisfied.” — The Merchant of Venice
  • “Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.” — Troilus and Cressida
  • “All’s well that ends well.” — All’s Well That Ends Well

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