Conundrum
When Fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threat’ning eye.
–King John,
Act III, Scene iv

When Fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threat’ning eye.
–King John,
Act III, Scene iv

Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,
Yet with my nobler reason ‘gainst my fury
Do I take part: the rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance.
–The Tempest,
Act V, Scene i

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;
And vice sometimes by action dignified.
–Romeo and Juliet,
Act II, Scene iii

True nobility is exempt from fear.
–Henry VI Part 2,
Act IV, Scene i

Mine honour is my life; both grow in one:
Take honour from me, and my life is done.
–Richard II,
Act I, Scene i

The fire i’th’ flint shows not till it be struck.
–Timon of Athens,
Act I, Scene i

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer’d.
-Cymbeline,
Act IV, Scene iii