As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).
William ShakespeareRead
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
Interpretation
True peace comes from within, transcending external validations or status.
In this quote, Shakespeare expresses the idea that genuine peace and contentment are achieved internally, regardless of societal expectations or material success. A calm and clear conscience provides a sense of tranquility that is far more valuable than any earthly power or position.
In practice
In a motivational speech about mental health
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).
Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!
Give it an understanding, but no tongue.
You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.
In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.
A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet
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