Ambrose Bierce

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• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

  • Anger

• Ocean: A body of water occupying 2/3 of a world made for man…who has no gills.

  The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

  • Anti-Religion

• All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

  Epigrams, p. 369

  • Philosophy

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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