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• Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

  C. S. Lewis1898–1963

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

  Aristotle384–322 BC

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• To err is human, to forgive divine.

  Alexander Pope1688–1744An Essay on Criticism (1711)In context

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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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