John le Carré on luck

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• Chance favors the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur1822–1895

• I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

  ?UnattributedOften credited to Benjamin Franklin

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• I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it… The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

  Samuel Goldwyn1882–1974

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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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