Profound Wisdom and Clever Sayings

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1. 'This above all - to thine own self be true' Hamlet King Lear Othello Julius Caesar

2. Shakespeare again on Life : 'It is a tale full of sound and fury, told by an idiot, signifying nothing' Antony and Cleopatra The Tempest Macbeth Coriolanus

3. Know Thyself Socrates Aristotle Plato Cicero

4. Youth is wasted on the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge George Bernard Shaw Voltaire Robert Browning

5. 'If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you ...' Rudyard Kipling Elizabeth Barrett Browning Emilty Dickinson Walt Whitman

6. 'Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind' John Donne Percy Shelley Lord Byron John Keats

7. 'Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself' Canterbury Tales Everyman Oedipus Rex Desiderata

8. On wedded bliss: 'Here lies me wife. Let her lie. Now she's at peace ... and so am I' D.H. Lawrence Thomas Hood John Dryden Charles Baudelaire

9. A little humor: As he lay dying, a broken man in a seedy hotel, legend has it that this witty fellow remarked: 'it's me or the wallpaper - one of us has got to go'. Edgar Allan Poe Oscar Wilde Ernest Hemingway F Scott Fitzgerald

10. On sex: 'the pleasure is brief, the position ridiculous, and the cost ghastly' William Butler Yeats Lord Chesterfield William Wordsworth Ezra Pound