David Gemmell

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• A man who never made a mistake never made anything.

  • Risk

• Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

  • Intelligence

• A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.

  Legend, Ch. 1

  • Friendship

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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