Robert E. Howard

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• A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs.

  “Beyond the Black River” (1935)

  • Character

• It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

  “The God in the Bowl” (1952)

  • Life & Death

• Civilized nations never, never have selfish motives for butchering, raping and looting; only horrid barbarians have those.

  From a letter to H. P. Lovecraft (5 December 1935)

  • Clever Jabs
  • War & Peace

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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