향기

꽃에 향기가 있듯이 사람에게도 품격이란 것이 있다

그러나 꽃도 그 생명이 생생할 때에는 향기가 신선하듯이

사람도 그 마음이 맑지 못하면 품격을 보전하기 어렵다. 

 

썩은 백합꽃은 잡초보다 오히려그 냄새가 고약하다.  

 

- 세익스피어

 

SONNET 94

 

                                                  William Shakespeare

 

  They that have power to hurt and will do none,
  That do not do the thing they most do show,
  Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
  Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow,
  They rightly do inherit heaven's graces
  And husband nature's riches from expense;
  They are the lords and owners of their faces,
  Others but stewards of their excellence.
  The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
  Though to itself it only live and die,
  But if that flower with base infection meet,
  The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
  For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
  Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.