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最深刻的真理，是最簡單和最樸素。
I am as true as truth’s simplicity,
And simpler than the infancy of truth.

無言的純潔的天真，往往比說話更能打動人心。

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

愛情是一朵生長在絕崖邊緣的花，要想採摘它必須有勇氣
Love is a magnificent flower on the edge of a cliff; to gather it we need courage. (Don’t know where this came from)

女人是被愛的,不是被瞭解的
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
(This quote is from Oscar Wilde, not from William Shakespeare.)

愛，和炭相同，燒起來，得想辦法叫它冷卻。讓它任意著，那就要把一顆心燒 焦
Affection is a coal that must be cool'd else suffer'd it will set the heart on fire. (from: Venus and Adonis)

你甜蜜的愛，就是珍寶，我不屑把處境跟帝王對調.
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
(from: Sonnet 29)

不太熱烈的愛情才會維持久遠
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain

(From: Venus and Adonis)

愛情裡面要是攙雜了和它本身無關的算計，那就不是真的愛情。
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
(From: Sonnet 116)

愛情不過是一種瘋
Love is merely madness. (From: As You Like It – said by Rosalind).

愛的力量是和平，從不顧理性、成規和榮辱，它能使一切恐懼、震驚和痛苦在身受時化作甜蜜
Love's arms are peace, 'gainst rule, 'gainst sense, 'gainst shame,
And sweetens, in the suff'ring pangs it bears,
The aloes of all forces, shocks, and fears.
(From: A Lover's Complaint lines 271-273)

戀愛是盲目的，戀人們瞧不見他們自己所干的傻事
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit
(From: The Merchant of Venice - Act 2, Scene 6).

毒藥有時也能治病
Poison hath residence and medicine power.
(From: Romeo and Juliet: Act 2, scene3)

莎士比亞：愛像雨後的陽光

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

(From Venice and Adonis)