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“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Cassius, Act I, scene ii.
Variant: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Source: Julius Caesar

“That deep torture may be called a hell,
When more is felt than one hath power to tell.”

William Shakespeare book The Rape of Lucrece

The Rape of Lucrece.

“Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile,
And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart,
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
And frame my face for all occasions”

William Shakespeare

Source: King Henry VI, Part 3

“We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.”

William Shakespeare Henry VIII

Source: Henry VIII

“For it falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
While it was ours.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Brutus, Act IV, scene iii.
Source: Julius Caesar (1599)

“O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?”

William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 2

Source: Henry IV, Part 2

“What's done cannot be undone.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Variant: What's done, is done
Source: Macbeth

“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“In time we hate that which we often fear.”

William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra

Source: Antony and Cleopatra

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Malvolio, Act II, scene v.
Variant: Some are born great, others achieve greatness.
Source: Twelfth Night (1601)

“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Variant: Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
Source: Julius Caesar

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Touchstone, Act V, scene i
Source: As You Like It (1599–1600)

“And make death proud to take us.”

William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra

Source: Antony and Cleopatra

“The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“To be, or not to be, that is the question”

William Shakespeare

Source: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56965/speech-to-be-or-not-to-be-that-is-the-question