“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck, Act III, scene ii.
Variant: Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
“What fools these mortals be!”
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter I: On Saving Time
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Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BCRelated quotes
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“Creatures of a day! What is a man?
What is he not? A dream of a shadow
Is our mortal being.”
Pindar (-517–-437 BC) Ancient Greek poet
Pythian 8, line 95-8; pages 162-3. (446 BC)
Context: Creatures of a day! What is a man?
What is he not? A dream of a shadow
Is our mortal being. But when there comes to men
A gleam of splendour given of Heaven,
Then rests on them a light of glory
And blesséd are their days.
“All the Good of mortals is mortal.”
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCVIII: On the Fickleness of Fortune