Vincent van Gogh

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• I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  Often credited to Pablo Picasso

  • Education

• Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

  Often credited to George Eliot

  • Success

• The sadness will last forever.

  Attributed to Vincent, as quoted by Theo van gogh in his letter from Paris, to Elisabeth van Gogh, 5 August 1890

  • Emotion

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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