In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard of monstrous lust the due and just reward; In Pericles, his queen, and daughter, seen, Although assailed with fortune fierce and keen, Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crowned with joy at last.
Weitere Zitate von William Shakespeare
Zum Autor"Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard."
"The cunning livery of hell."
"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting."
"Sweet are the uses of adversity."
"That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)."
"So our virtuesLie in the interpretation of the time:And power, unto itself most commendable,Hath not a tomb so evident as a chairTo extol what it hath done.One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail."