Elbert Hubbard

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• Don’t take life too seriously; you’ll never get out of it alive.

  A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 74

  • Life & Death

• Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

  The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)

  • Wisdom

• He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

  • Talking

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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