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{{cquote|What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!}}
{{cquote|What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!}}
Famous quotations by Shakespeare includes a remarkable 12 separate uses of infinity.<ref>https://keytopoetry.com/dev/william-shakespeare/quotations/</ref>
Famous quotations by Shakespeare includes a remarkable 12 separate uses of infinity.<ref>https://keytopoetry.com/dev/william-shakespeare/quotations/</ref>
Shakespeare in particular warns of the vicious circle of unlimited desire, will and power in his ''Troilus and Cressida'' (1600), speaking of moderation and degree:
:''Ulysses'': Take but degree away, untune that string,
:And hark, what discord follows! Each thing meets
:In mere oppugnancy. The bounded waters
:Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores
:And make a sop of all this solid globe.
:Strength should be lord of imbecility,
:And the rude son should strike his father dead.
:Force should be right; or rather right and wrong,
:Between whose endless jar justice resides,
:Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
:Then everything includes itself in power,
:Power into will, will into appetite;
:And appetite, an universal wolf,
:So doubly seconded with will and power,
:Must make perforce an universal prey,
:And last eat up himself. (Act I, Scene III, ''ll''. 109-124)
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