Monologue

Nerissa Monologue from The Merchant of Venice

From The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

female · philosophical · 32 sec

You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are. And yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean. Superfluity come sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

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