Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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• There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

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• If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

  The Insulted and the Injured (1861), Part III, Chapter 2 (tr. Constance Garnett, 1915)

• Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.

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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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