Shakespeare Sources Quotes

“Since Shakespeare had a like for revolutionary rhetoric, let’s all cry: “Peace, freedom, and kindness.” So now we can start the play!”
― Carl William Brown, William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown

“Dear reader, mon frère, increasingly rare, and less and less willing to descend into the depths of unknown literature to find the new, remember well that, as the great Voltaire said, some sentences are worth more than entire libraries, and to quote Prospero, Me, poor man, my library was a dukedom large enough!... So, of his gentleness, knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me from my own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom!”
― Carl William Brown, William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown

“When you are about to trample on others, think that you will soon be trampled upon.”
― Carl William Brown, William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown

“As far as the development of human happiness is concerned I would say that egoism is the higher form of stupid ignorance that prevents it.”
― Carl William Brown, William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown

“Shakespeare, with his wisdom and creative ability, enhanced by his brilliant rhetoric, created works truly full of aphorisms and memorable phrases capable of distilling profound insights into human nature, ethics, politics, love, suffering, in practice, into the whole existence.”
― Carl William Brown, William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown

“To conclude this preface I would just like to add that certainly aphoristic literature, although of extreme philosophical, artistic, and often even scientific value, is not loved by the general public, less and less accustomed to reading, meditating and thinking, perhaps because they realize, even following the advice of certain pseudo intellectuals, that to be happy and carefree you must not make your brain work too much, however I remain of the opposite opinion, precisely to safeguard our humanity, and therefore I agree with the following concept expressed by John Stuart Mill and for this reason I continue to strive to promote the aphoristic genre, here is the pearl of the great English philosopher: "It is better to be a discontented man than a satisfied pig, to be Socrates unhappy than a contented imbecile, and if the imbecile and the pig are of a different opinion it is because they see only one side of the question.”
― Carl William Brown, William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown