Thomas Carlyle

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• Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

  Often credited to Abraham Lincoln

  • Virtue

• A lie cannot live.

  Often credited to Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Truth & Lies

• That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

  Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), Bk. III, ch. 4.

  • Education
  • Knowledge

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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