Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“Fortune have somewhat the nature of a woman; if she be too much wooed, she is the farther off.”
Source: As quoted in The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book II, by Francis Bacon
“Thou shalt learn,
Late though it be, the lesson to be wise.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 1425 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)
How shall I woo?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Oh, be wise, Thou!
Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.”
Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.
Lines (1795)
“So weak thou art, that fools thy power despise;
And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.”
To Love, found in Miss Vanhomrigh's desk after her death, in Swift's handwriting
“If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.”
VIII, 38
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
