Truly from Seneca the Younger, in De Ira, Book III, Chapter V:
Aut potentior te aut inbecillior laesit: si inbecillior, parce illi, si potentior, tibi.
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This statement by an unknown author has also been wrongly attributed to Julius Caesar, as well as to Shakespeare's play on his assassination and its aftermath, but there are no records of it prior to late 2000. It has been debunked at Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm
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“The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb.”
Suffolk, Act III, scene i.
Henry VI, Part 2 (1592)
“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”
The Passionate Pilgrim: A Madrigal; there is some doubt about the authorship of this.
Flavius, Act IV, scene ii.
Timon of Athens (1605)
“Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.”
Guiderius, Act IV, scene ii.
Cymbeline (1610)
“Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.”
Richard of Gloucester, Act V, scene vi.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
Not by Shakespeare, but from Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times: A Book of Meditations, a 1993 self-help book by David S. Viscott.
Misattributed
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/16/purpose-gift/
Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music, II. Not to be confused with The Sonnets; this poem is not a sonnet
“Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?”
Macbeth, Act II, scene i.
Macbeth (1606)
Feeble, Act III, scene ii.
Henry IV, Part 2 (1597–8)
Richard, Act III, scene iv.
Richard III (1592–3)
Silvia, Act IV, scene iv.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590–1)
“O learn to read what silent love hath writ: To hear with eyes belongs to love´s fine wit.”
Source: Sonnet XXIII
Context: As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put besides his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength’s abundance weakens his own heart;
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love’s right,
And in mine own love’s strength seem to decay,
O’ercharged with burthen of mine own love’s might.
O, let my books be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast;
Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
More than that tongue that more hath more express’d.
O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:
To hear with eyes belongs to love’s fine wit.
“To be, or not to be, that is the question”
Source: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56965/speech-to-be-or-not-to-be-that-is-the-question
