A Fool In Romeo And Juliet

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A couple of lesson ago I was reading the play of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, I came across another play that he had wrote called As You Like It. It was written in 1599 early 1600 and published in 1623. I didn't really read the whole play because I was doing the Romeo and Juliet lesson but now that I have to do a writing on quotes I google it. Sure enough the play popped up and I found this quote to my liking. "A fool thinks himself to be wise but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." There's other quotes as well, but I thinks that this quote can also be use in the modern day.

"A fool thinks himself to be wise but a wise man think of himself to be a fool," this quote by William Shakespeare is basically mean what it's said. The way that I understand is, a person who believe to be right and doesn't want to listen to anyone else because this person thinks that he is better than everyone else. On the other hand, a wise person realizes that he still has a lot to learn in life and will never stop learning. He won't stop until he understand. …show more content…

I believe that the first part of the quote was for me and all the young teenagers, " A fool thinks himself to be wise." My mom always tells me that I think I know everything. Yes, I sometimes sound like I know everything, even more than my parents. Basically I'm not that wise and I realized that but I guess I just want to be right all the time. I know that I haven't live long enough to know about going through the hard times in life and things do get harder in life but I'll deal with it when it comes

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