William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

"But man, proud man,Dress'd in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd—His glassy essence—like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,Would all themselves laugh mortal."

"To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life."

"Alack, when once our grace we have forgot,Nothing goes right; we would and we would not."

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."

"From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty As surfeit is the father of much fast,So every scope of the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, -Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, - A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die."

"Thy best of rest is sleep,And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more."

"I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment."

"That in the captain's but a choleric word,Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy."

"Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone."

"It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant(Isabella)"

"Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thought Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death."

"I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him."

"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?"

"Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death."