What do I know?
Eras
Renaissance
The recovery of antiquity: statecraft, essays, and the stage.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
This above all: to thine own self be true.
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
Knowledge is power.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.
Men in general judge more by the eyes than by the hands, for everyone can see, but few can feel.
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
To choose time is to save time.