Aesop

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• He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

  • Morality

• Only cowards insult dying majesty.

• Slow but steady wins the race.

  Aesop’s Fables (6th century BC), The Lion and the Mouse – The Fawn and His MotherIn context

  • Motivation & Goals
  • Success

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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