Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

673. What is aught, but as ’tis valued?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Troilus and Cressida (Troilus), Act II, Scene II

674. I beseech you, let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation; for I never knew so young a body with so old a head.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Merchant of Venice (the Clerk reads), Act IV, Scene I

675. Hard is the task of justice, where distress
Excites our mercy, yet demands redress.

Colley Cibber (1671-1757)

The Heroick Daughter (King), Act III, last lines

676. For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth: Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889)

Proverbial Philosophy, Of Truth in Things False, 3

677. Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Meditationes Sacra, De Haeresibus

678. One ear it heard, at the other out it went.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

Troilus and Cresscide, Bk IV, line 435