Thoughts on { Shame | John Milton / William Blake / Dante Alighieri / Aristotle / William Shakespeare / Victor Hugo / Sophocles
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“Where shame is, there is also fear.”
John Milton
“Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.”
Seneca the Younger
“Shame is pride’s cloak.”
William Blake
“Less shame a greater fault would palliate.”
Dante Alighieri
“Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.”
“Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.”
Hesiod
“Never shame to hear what you have nobly done.”
William Shakespeare
“In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.”
“Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.”
Horace
“You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.”
Victor Hugo
