Joseph Addison

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• To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.

  The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 185 (2 October 1711).

  • Atheism

• What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

  • Happiness

• Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

  • Talking
  • Virtue

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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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