Misty's Commonplace Book

Fool: "He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.

“The Stoics define wisdom to be conducted by reason, and folly nothing else but the being hurried by passion, lest our life should otherwise have been too dull and inactive, that creator, who out of clay first tempered and made us up, put into the composition of our humanity more than a pound of passions to an ounce of reason; and reason he confined within the narrow cells of the brain, whereas he left passions the whole body to range in.

“Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.

No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

“O, reason not the need!

The art of our necessities is strange, that can make vile things precious.

If he but with good advice had weigh’d The hidden tenor of her humble speech Reason to race should not have given place

Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound.

Every man carries in himself the complete pattern of human nature.

All beasts are happy, For, when they die, Their souls are soon dissolv'd in elements

Faustus: (talking to a demon he just summoned from hell) Ya know, I don't really believe that hell exists. I think it's just made up and imaginary.