Philip James Bailey

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• The worst men often give the best advice.

  Festus (1839)

  • Advice

• Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.

  Festus (1839)

  • Truth & Lies

• Evil and good are God’s right hand and left.

  Festus (1839), Proem

  • God
  • Good & Evil

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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