“This above all: to thine own self be true.”Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3 · View source
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“Is it not a pleasure, having learned something, to try it out at due intervals?”Analects, Book 1 · View source
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”Meditations, Book 3, section 9 · View source
“When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers.”Analects, Book 7 (Shu Er) · View source
“Kindness, nobler ever than revenge.”As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 3 · View source
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”Essays, First Series — Friendship · View source
“With malice toward none; with charity for all.”Second Inaugural Address, 4 March 1865 · View source
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7 · View source
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”Troilus and Cressida, Act 3, Scene 3 · View source
“The arms best adapted to old age are culture and the active exercise of the virtues.”On Old Age, section 3 · View source
“The consciousness of a well-spent life and the recollection of many virtuous actions are exceedingly delightful.”On Old Age, section 3 · View source
“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet 116 · View source
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