Quote of William Shakespeare - This above all: to thine own...

Biography - William Shakespeare:

English poet, playwright and actor.
Born: 1564 - Died: 1616
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

This above all: to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

oneself

Note

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."

Source: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Internet Archive - Shakespeare's Hamlet (en)

This above all: to thine own self be true.

Translation

(French, German)

Ceci avant tout ; soi fidèle à toi-même.

William Shakespeare - La Tragique Histoire d'Hamlet, prince de Danemark

Dies über alles: Sei dir selber treu.

William Shakespeare - Die Tragödie von Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark

Quotes about oneself:

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Seneca - De Vita Beata /

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy /

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Carl Gustav Jung /

Don't forget to love yourself.

Soren Kierkegaard /

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution /

At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

All about oneself...

William Shakespeare also said...

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice /

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

What's done cannot be undone.

William Shakespeare - Macbeth /

fact

Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.

William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing /

What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;

William Shakespeare - Romeo und Julia /

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