Misty's Commonplace Book

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.” ― Michel de Montaigne

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Fool: "He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.

William Shakespeare, King Lear

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“The Stoics define wisdom to be conducted by reason, and folly nothing else but the being hurried by passion, lest our life should otherwise have been too dull and inactive, that creator, who out of clay first tempered and made us up, put into the composition of our humanity more than a pound of passions to an ounce of reason; and reason he confined within the narrow cells of the brain, whereas he left passions the whole body to range in.

Michel De Montaigne

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of King Lear

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“Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.

Sir Philip Sidney, A Defense of Poesy

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“The Utopians wonder that any man should be so enamoured of the lustre of a jewel, when he can behold a star or the sun.”

Sir Thomas More, Utopia

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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

Thomas More, Utopia

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Philip Judge as King Lear dlr Mill Theatre October 2017

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“O, reason not the need!

William Shakespeare, King Lear

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The art of our necessities is strange, that can make vile things precious.

William Shakespeare, King Lear

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a chill in the air

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If he but with good advice had weigh’d The hidden tenor of her humble speech Reason to race should not have given place

King Leir (Anonymous)

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Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound.

William Shakespeare, King Lear

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Now, fellow… fare thee well

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Every man carries in himself the complete pattern of human nature.

Michel de Montaigne

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All beasts are happy, For, when they die, Their souls are soon dissolv'd in elements

Christopher Marlowe, Faustus

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Doctor Faustus (1967) Directed by & starring Richard Burton.

Based on The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.

University of Wittenberg scholar Faustus earns his doctorate, but his insatiable craving for knowledge and power leads Faustus to try his hand at necromancy in an attempt to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell.

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Faustus: (talking to a demon he just summoned from hell) Ya know, I don't really believe that hell exists. I think it's just made up and imaginary.

Demon: .... Ok