Robert Frost

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• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I…I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  The Road Not Taken (1915), Mountain Interval (1916, 1920), The Road Not Taken, st. 4In context

  • Risk

• In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

  Attributed in Ray Josephs, “Robert Frost’s Secret”, in William Nichols (ed.) Words to Live By (Simon and Schuster, 1959), pp. 172–73

  • Life & Death

• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

  • Education

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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