Kahlil Gibran

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• Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  The Prophet (1923)In context

  • Love

• No human relation gives one possession in another…every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship and in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

  • Friendship
  • Love

• Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

  Khalil Gibran, in What Has Wisdom Got to Do with It?—365 Daily Wisdom Confessions and …, p. 85.

  • Wisdom

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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).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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