His youth was distinguished by all the tumult and storm of pleasures, in which he licentiously triumphed, disdaining all decorum. ...His fine imagination was often heated and exhausted with his body in celebrating and deifying the prostitute of the night, and his convivial joys were pushed to all the extravagancy of frantic bacchanals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to ...do without, and to depart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from... taking trouble about any improvement in particular.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
1st Murderer. Where's thy conscience now?... 2nd Murderer. I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward.... It fills a ma...n full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found. It beggars any man that keeps it. It is turned out of towns and cities for a dangerous thing, and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
1st Lady. Madam, we'll tell tales. Queen. Of sorrow or of joy?... 1st Lady. Of either, madam. Queen. Of neither, girl. For if of joy, being altogether wanting, It doth remember me the more of sorrow. Or if of grief, being altogether had, It adds more sorrow to my want of joy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
3rd Fisherman. I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. 1st Fisherman. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the littl...e ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »