William Shakespeare

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• If music be the food of love, play on.

  Twelfth Night (1601), Act I, scene i.In context

  • Love
  • Music

• This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  Hamlet (1600–1), Act I, scene iii.In context

  • Truth & Lies

• Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.

  Julius Caesar (1599), Act II, scene ii.In context

  • Courage

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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