Samuel Johnson

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• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

  • Morality

• Sex: the expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.

  • Sex

• A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

  Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (1770) p. 182

  • Marriage

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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).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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