Quote of William Shakespeare - Let me be that I am...

Biography - William Shakespeare:

English poet, playwright and actor.
Born: 1564 - Died: 1616
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.

William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing

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Quote source: Much Ado About Nothing

Internet Archive - The works of William Shakespeare (en)

Shakespeare - Œuvres complètes, traduction Hugo (fr)

Translation

(German, French)

Lass mich sein, was ich bin, und such mich nicht zu ändern.

William Shakespeare - Viel Lärm um nichts

Laisse-moi être ce que je suis, et ne cherche pas à me changer.

William Shakespeare - Beaucoup de bruit pour rien

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This above all: to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

The art, my children, it is to be absolutely oneself.

Paul Verlaine

I accept the great adventure of being me.

Simone de Beauvoir

William Shakespeare also said...

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice /

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

What's done cannot be undone.

William Shakespeare - Macbeth /

fact

What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;

William Shakespeare - Romeo und Julia /

Meet the time as it seeks us.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Cymbeline /

time

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