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Quotation from Hamlet by William Shakespeare
“This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man”
Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3 (Project Gutenberg #1524, modern spelling)
Polonius's parting advice to Laertes closes a string of maxims, some wise and some merely worldly.
Citation: "This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man" — William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3 (Project Gutenberg #1524, modern spelling). (id hamlet-q2)
Portrait: Hamlet Q1 Frontispiece 1603, William Shakespeare, Public domain.
