"When he is best, he is a..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
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“Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?”
“Chain me with roaring bears;Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones,With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;Or bid me go into a new-made grave,And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;And I will do it without Fear or Doubt,To live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love.”
“Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.”
More on Humanity
“A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends; and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will makea reasonable Dish; and seasoned with a little Pepper or Salt, will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter.”
“I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.”
“But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.”
More on Morality
“You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the best in people.”
“That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.”
“Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.”