William Hazlitt

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• Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

  Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819)

  • Laughter

• As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

  Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld’s Maxims (1823), No. 89

  • Motivation & Goals

• Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

  The Round Table (1815-1817), “On Manner”

  • Beauty

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

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• 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