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Quote of William Shakespeare - For there is nothing either good...


Biography - William Shakespeare:

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

For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Car rien n'est en soi bon ou mauvais, la pensée le rend tel.

German
Denn an sich ist nichts weder gut noch schlimm; das Denken macht es erst dazu.




See also 

See also...



Then donʼt conclude that what is not beautiful is ugly or what is not good is bad.

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

Man is neither good nor bad, he is born with instincts and aptitudes.

Do not have too artificial an idea of man but judge him naturally. Don't consider him too good or too bad.




Quotes for: to think


Quotes

Quotes for: to think


A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.





Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.





I think, therefore I am.





Men should strive to think much and know little.











Quotes for: good


Quotes

Quotes for: good


The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.





Do not wait to be perfect to start something good.





Where all is well, there is no such thing as injustice. Justice and goodness are inseparable.





To do good needs no consideration.





The best is the enemy of good.





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











Quotes for: evil


Quotes

Quotes for: evil


The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.





One of the most important and most difficult arts is to unlearn vice.





The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.





Antisthenes used to say that the most useful science was to unlearn evil.





Ignorance is the mother of all evils.





Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.











Quotes

William Shakespeare also said...


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





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





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






What's done cannot be undone.





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





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













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