Talk about a meaningful life: it boggles the mind to think of how many things written by Shakespeare are part of our language. Whether the platitudes are Will's own views or simply expressions of his characters (I embrace that the best have a voice all their own, separate and apart from the writer structuring thoughts on the page), many have stood the test of time.
Among the more notorious is Polonius' counsel to Laertes in Hamlet:
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.
People pay plenty of money for self-help books and seminars and don't get advice that good.
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