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• Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

  John Wooden1910–2010

• Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

  Tacitus55–120

• Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The American Scholar (1837), par. 27

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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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