Search results for Renaissance (16. bis 17. Jahrhundert)

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

William Shakespeare

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

William Shakespeare

Though she be but little, she is fierce!

William Shakespeare

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!

William Shakespeare

You were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

Beyond the sphere that widest orbit swings, passes the sigh that leaves my heart below.

Francesco Petrarca

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

In times of peace, prepare for war.

Niccolò Machiavelli