Josh Billings

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• It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.

  Often credited to Mark Twain

  • Education

• Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

  Often credited to George Bernard Shaw

  • Success

• Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

  • Envy
  • Love

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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).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy