Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  • Friendship

• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  Essays

  • Friendship

• What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

  Letters and Social Aims (1876)

  • Talking

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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).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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