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Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.
Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.
Submit or resign.
[Lat., Se soumettre ou se demettre.]
Submit or resign.
[Lat., Se soumettre ou se demettre.]
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,
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If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,
And I will look on both indifferently;
For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honor more than I fear death.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
Of harmes two the less is for to chose.
Of harmes two the less is for to chose.
Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
[Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]
Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
[Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]
Betwixt the devil and the deep sea.
Betwixt the devil and the deep sea.
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
