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• Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

  Aristotle384–322 BC

• Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act II, scene ii.In context

• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  ?UnattributedOften credited to Winston Churchill

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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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