“But man, proud man! Dress’d in a little brief authority,—most ignorant of what he’s most assured, his glassy essence,—like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal.” – William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure 2.2
Month: October 2026
“It is excellent to have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.” – William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure 2.2
“No ceremony that to great ones ’longs, not the king’s crown nor the deputed sword, the marshal’s truncheon nor the judge’s robe, become them with one half so good a grace as mercy does.” – William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure 2.2
“Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; pardon is still the nurse of second woe.” – William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure 2.1
“Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall: some run from brakes of vice, and answer none; and some condemnéd for a fault alone.” – William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure 2.1
“The jewel that we find, we stoop and take it, because we see it; but what we do not see we tread upon, and never think of it.” – William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure 2.1