Stefan Zweig

More from Stefan Zweig

• No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

  Beware of Pity (1939)

  • Morality

• The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.

  Beware of Pity (1939)

  • Truth & Lies

• It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one’s own existence.

  Beware of Pity (1939)

  • Life & Death

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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