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• If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

  • Men
  • Women
  • Work

• The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

  The Republic (375 BC), Republic, Book IV, 425BIn context

  • Education

• Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

  • Talking

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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• 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