Emil Cioran

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• Isn’t history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

  History and Utopia (1960)

  • History

• The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

  The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

  • Money

• Tears do not burn except in solitude.

  On the Heights of Despair (1934)

  • Emotion

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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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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