Cicero

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• A room without books is like a body without a soul.

  Often credited to G. K. Chesterton

  • Reading

• In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

  • Philosophy
  • Writing

• Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.

  • Wisdom

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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).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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