T. S. Eliot

More from T. S. Eliot

• The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

  • Morality

• It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

  • Love

• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  “Philip Massinger”, a biographical essay, in The Sacred Wood (1920)

  • Poetry

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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