Sydney J. Harris

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• Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

  • Risk

• When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’

  Strictly Personal (1953), “Purely Personal Prejudices”

  • Life & Death

• Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

  Strictly Personal (1953), “Purely Personal Prejudices”

  • Ideas
  • Youth

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

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

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