Shakespeare’s works shimmer with memorable strains. From “All that glitters is just not gold” to “There’s methodology in his insanity,” these flashes of wit and knowledge have achieved a timeless relevance.
The work of different notable Seventeenth-century playwrights like Moliere and Racine — produced shortly after Shakespeare’s dying in 1616 — additionally include stellar, if much less generally quoted, literary nuggets. Listed below are a number of examples value remembering.
The Cid (1636)
by Pierre Corneille
Time, instantly, at the moment, tomorrow,
can change the best pleasure to darkest sorrow
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What mindless fury and impotent rage
one feels on the arduous weak point of outdated age!
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When pleasure should trigger need to be misplaced
What number of sighs and tears shall mark the price
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I…should see myself now doomed by sagging age,
insulted, vanquished by my physique’s cage
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The Misanthrope (1666)
by Moliere
What, on this shallow age, is just not debased?
Our fathers, although much less refined, had higher style.
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All males are so detestable in my eyes,
I ought to be sorry in the event that they thought me clever
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Sincerity in extra can get you into a really fairly mess
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It’s flatterers such as you whose silly reward
nourishes all of the vices of today
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Lovers are not any nice bother to gather
if one prefers them to at least one’s self respect
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Nothing’s so stormy as an injured lover,
