John Bartlett on quotations

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• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  Oscar Wilde1854–1900De Profundis (1897)

• A witty saying proves nothing.

  Voltaire1694–1778Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers (1767): Deuxième Entretien

• I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882May 1849

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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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