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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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• Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

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• Man is by nature a political animal.

  Politics, chapter 2 (Bekker I.1253a2). Translated by Josiah Tucker, A Treatise Concerning Civil Government (1781), p. 381

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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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