Oscar Wilde

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• True friends stab you in the front.

  • Friendship

• Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

  • Patriotism

• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

  Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Act III

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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