01UndatedOh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
05UndatedFaustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good willmy soul do thy lord?Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom.Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.(It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.)Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
06UndatedHell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be.Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
08UndatedMephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements,Where we are tortured and remain forever.Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribedIn one self place, for where we are is hell,And where hell is must we ever be.And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves,And every creature shall be purified,All places shall be hell that is not heaven.Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
09UndatedYOUNG MORTIMER:Thou proud disturber of thy country's peace,Corrupter of thy king, cause of these broils,Base flatterer, yield! and were it not for shame,Shame and dishonour to a soldier's name,Upon my weapon's point here should'st thou fall,And welter in thy gore.LANCASTER:Monster of men!That, like the Greekish strumpet, train'd to armsAnd bloody wars so many valiant knights;Look for no other fortune, wretch, than death!King Edward is not here to buckler thee.Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
10UndatedBut what are kings, when regiment is gone,But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?- Edward II, 5.1Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
11UndatedO, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars; Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter When he appear'd to hapless Semele; More lovely than the monarch of the sky In wanton Arethusa's azur'd armsExcerpt From: Christopher Marlowe. “The Tragical History of Doctor FaustusChristopher Marlowe / quote ↗
15UndatedWhat virtue is it that is born with us?Much less can honor be ascribed thereto,Honor is purchased by the deeds we do.Believe me, Hero, honor is not won,Until some honorable deed be done.----From “Hero and Leander, Sestiad IChristopher Marlowe / quote ↗
16UndatedI am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
17UndatedFAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee,I cut mine arm, and with my proper bloodAssure my soul to be great Lucifer's,Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
19UndatedCome live with me and be my love And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys groves or hills or fields Or woods and steepy mountains yield.Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
21UndatedCome live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
22UndatedI count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
24UndatedWhat are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?Christopher Marlowe / quote ↗
Edsverb reading card◎MeditationsMarcus AureliusFree edition · US public domainMeric Casaubon translation (1634), later edited editionRelated reading on character and mind; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗
Edsverb reading cardΠThe RepublicPlatoFree edition · US public domainBenjamin Jowett translationRelated reading on justice; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗
Edsverb reading card道Tao Te ChingLaozi (traditional attribution)Free edition · US public domainJames Legge translation; publication year not supplied in the linked digitized textRelated reading on peace; this is an editorial connection, not the source of the saying.About this book ↗