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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
United Kingdom

This above all: to thine own self be true.



Note 

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

Translation

(French, German)



French
Ceci avant tout ; soi fidèle à toi-même.

German
Dies über alles: Sei dir selber treu.




See also 

See also...



The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Observe what your nature requires of you.

Tell yourself, first of all, what kind of man you want to be; and then go ahead with what you are doing.

I accept the great adventure of being me.

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




Quotes for: oneself


Quotes

Quotes about oneself:


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





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Don't forget to love yourself.





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





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.











Quotes

William Shakespeare also said...


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





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





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






What's done cannot be undone.





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





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













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