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He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
- Aesop’s Fables (6th century BC), The Lion and the Mouse – The Fawn and His MotherIn context
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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
Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).
