What is happening today is reflected in the following words of the great master- Shakespeare
A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Merchant of Venice I.3
Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtles breaks – arm it in rags, a pigmy’s straw doth pierce it.
King Lear IV. 6
To die, to sleep; perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub: for in that sleep of death what dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause.
Who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the dread of some-thing after death, the undiscover’d country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound for shallows and in miseries.
Julius Caesar IV-3
Giddy Fortune is painted with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind; and she is painted also with a wheel, to signify to you… that she is turning, and in-constant, and mutability, and variation : and her foot … is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls.
Henry V III -6
There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.
Hamlet V- 1
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness trust upon them.
Twelfth Night II – 5
All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits, and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god!
All men are not alike; clay and clay differs in dignity, whose dust is both alike.
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
Taming of the Shrew V-2.
O, it is excellent to have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Measure for Measure II-2
