George Eliot

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• What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

  Middlemarch (1871)In context

  • Life & Death

• Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

  Impressions of Theophrastus Such, Ch, 4 (1879); comparable to. James Russell Lowell 1871: Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

  • Talking

• An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

  Often credited to T. S. Eliot

  • Politics

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy