Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.

William Shakespeare · Othello (1604–1605), III, iii

We are in God’s hand.

William Shakespeare · King Henry V (1598–1599), III, vi

Truth hath a quiet breast.

William Shakespeare · King Richard II (1595), I, iii

Let us not burden our remembrances With a heaviness that’s gone.

William Shakespeare · The Tempest (1611–1612), V, i This thing of darkness I

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Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

John Berger · Ways of Seeing (1972), ch. 3

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Michel de Montaigne · Essays, III, 9

The truth doesn't fit into one heart, into one mind; truth is somehow splintered.

Svetlana Alexievich · The source reads: “It always troubled me that the truth doesn't fit into one heart, into one mind, that truth is somehow splintered. There's a lot of it, it is varied, and it is strewn about the world.” · Nobel Lecture (2015)

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“Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.”

“We are in God’s hand.”

“Truth hath a quiet breast.”

“Let us not burden our remembrances With a heaviness that’s gone.”

“Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.”

“There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.”

“The truth doesn't fit into one heart, into one mind; truth is somehow splintered.”