The Buddha

The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)

"It is better indeed to conquer yourself
rather than other people."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 8), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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Luo Guanzhong

Luo Guanzhong (lived between 1315 and 1400)

"Empires arise from chaos and empires collapse back into chaos. This we have known since time began,"

• The Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong and translated by Martin Palmer. New York: Penguin Classics, 2018.

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Black Elk

Black Elk (c. 1863-1950)

"Seeds sprout in the darkness of the ground before they know the summer and the day."

• From Black Elk Speaks (chapter 18), narrated by Black Elk and recorded/edited by John G. Neihardt. (University of Nebraska Press, 2014).

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Emperor Wen of Han

Emperor Wen of Han (r. 180-157 BCE)

"Agriculture is the basis of empire. Among the endeavours of man, none is more important."

• From a speech/edict delivered by Emperor Wen in the Records of the Grand Historian (Shi Ji, 10) by Sima Qian. Translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1993).

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Anna Komnene

Anna Komnene (c. 1083-1153)

"There is no one method of achieving victory, nor one form of it, but from ancient times up to the present, success has been won in different ways."

• From The Alexiad (Book XV) by Anna Komnene, translated by E.R.A. Sewter, (Penguin Classics, 2009).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"A good Conscience is a continual Christmas."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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The Didache

The Didache (anonymously-written Christian text, created around year 100)

"Do not be one who holds his hand out to take, but shuts it when it comes to giving."

• The anonymously-written Didache ("The Teaching," c. 100 CE), translated by Cyril C. Richardson (1970) in After The New Testament: A Reader In Early Christianity, edited by Bart D. Ehrman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius (Roman Emperor, c. 121-180)

"Consider both the infiniteness of the time already past, and the immense vastness of that which is to come, wherein all things are to be resolved and annihilated."

• From the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Book V, meditation XIX, (Xist Publishing edition, 2015).

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Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan (c. 1364-1430)

"What in the world is more tender than a mother toward her child? What greater pain is there than that felt in a mother's heart when she sees her child suffer?"

• From The Book of the City of Ladies (Part III, chapter 11) by Christine de Pizan, translated by Rosalind Brown-Grant (Penguin Classics, 1999). 

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Mencius

Mencius (c. flourished 4th century BCE)


"What is the most important duty? One's duty towards one's parents. What is the most important thing to watch over? One's own character."

• From The Mencius (Book IV, Part A) by Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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Tacitus

Tacitus (c. 56/57-117+)

"Perhaps not only the seasons but everything else, social history included, moves in cycles."

• The Annals of Imperial Rome (Book III, translator chaptor 6), by Tacitus, translated by Michael Grant (Penguin Classics, 1996).

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Confucius

Confucius (6th century BCE)

"He who by reanimating the Old can gain knowledge of the New is fit to be a teacher."

• From The Analects of Confucius (Book II, 11) translated by Arthur Waley (Vintage Books, 1989).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008).

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Emperor Domitian (recorded by Suetonius)

Emperor Domitian (r. 81-96)

"How pleasant it is to be elegant, yet how quickly that stage passes!"

• Quote attributed to Domition in his book, Care of the Hair, later recorded in The Twelve Caesars (Domitian) by Suetonius, translated by Robert Graves and edited by James B. Rives. New York: Penguin Classics, 2007.

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Hildr Hrólfsdóttir (recorded by Snorri Sturluson)

Attributed to Hildr Hrólfsdóttir (c. 9th century), recorded by Snorri Sturluson (c. 1179-1241)

"Tis ill 'gainst wolf to be wolfish,
warrior, such wolf opposing.
Hard that wolf will harry
your herds, once he runs to the forest."

• This poem is attributed to Hildr Hrólfsdóttir in The Saga of Harald Fairhair, included in Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla. The translation used here is by Lee Hollander (University of Texas Press, 1964, 2018). Hildr Hrólfsdóttir reportedly stated this poem after King Harald Fairhair (or Finehair) of Norway outlawed her son, Hrolf (Rollo), who would go on to rule Normandy.

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Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu (Sayings recorded between the 6th and 3rd century BCE)

"Subtlety of subtleties!
     Spies have
     Innumerable uses."

From Sun Tzu's The Art of War (Chapter Thirteen), translated by John Minford (Penguin Classics edition, 2009).



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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400)

"Love is a thing as any spirit free;
Women by nature long for liberty
And not to be constrained or made a thrall,
And so do men, if I may speak for all."

• From The Canterbury Tales (The Franklin's Tale) by Geoffrey Chaucer, translated to modern English by Nevill Coghill (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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Homer

Homer (flourished c. 700 BCE)

"A timid beggar is a bad beggar."

• The Odyssey (Book 17) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and edited by D. C. H. Rieu. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009. The quote comes from a line delivered by Penelope. She commenting on Odysseus, who was at the time disguised as a beggar.

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Murasaki Shikibu

Murasaki Shikibu (c. 11th century)

"Lost in my sorrows I never knew months and

days were still pasing by--

is the year really over, and my time, too, in the world?"

• From Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji (chapter 41), translated by Royall Tyler (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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Thucydides

Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE)

"Colonists are not sent abroad to be slaves of those who remain behind, but to be their equals."

• History of the Peloponnesian War (Book I, section 34) by Thucydides, translated by Rex Warner (Penguin Classics, 1972). The quote was supposedly from a speech delivered by a Corcyraean ambassador to Athens in 433 BCE, when they were seeking help agaisnt Corinth.

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Josephus

Josephus (c. 37/38-100)

"Famine is truly the worst form of suffering and decency its greatest victim."

• From The Jewish War by Josephus (trans. Henry Thackeray, Loeb 1961) and also referenced in Eusebius' The Church History (trans. Paul Maier, 1999). The quote comes from Josephus' commentary about the Roman siege of Jerusalem in the year 70.

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Sima Qian

Sima Qian (c. 145-90 BCE)

"Merit is difficult to achieve and easy to lose. The right time is hard to find and easy to let slip."

• From a speech delivered in the character of Kuai Tong within the Records of the Grand Historian (Shi Ji, 92) by Sima Qian. Translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1993).

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Black Elk

Black Elk (c. 1863-1950)

"You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round."

• From Black Elk Speaks (chapter 17), narrated by Black Elk and recorded/edited by John G. Neihardt. (University of Nebraska Press, 2014).

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General W. T. Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman (c. 1820-1891)

"I have again and again been invited to write a history of the war, or to record for publication my personal recollections of it, with large offers of money therefor; all of which I have heretofore declined, because the truth is not always palatable, and should not always be told."

• From The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman (Chapter IX) by W. T. Sherman. (Renaissance Classics, 2012).

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Nero

Nero (r. 54-68)

"A simple craft will keep a man from want."

• The Twelve Caesars (Nero) by Suetonius, translated by Robert Graves and edited by James B. Rives. New York: Penguin Classics, 2007.

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Tacitus

Tacitus (c. 56/57- 117+)

"Primitive man had no evil desires. Being blameless and innocent, his life was free of compulsions or penalties. He also needed no rewards; for he was naturally good."

• The Annals of Imperial Rome (Book III, translator chaptor 6), by Tacitus, translated by Michael Grant (Penguin Classics, 1996).

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The Buddha

The Buddha (6th Century BCE)

"Though one might conquer in battle
a thousand times a thousand men,
the one who conquers himself alone
is supreme in battle."

• The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 8), recorded in the 3rd century BCE. Translation by Glenn Wallis, 2004.

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Tiberius

Emperor Tiberius (r. 14-37)

"Rulers die; the country lives for ever."

• A quote attributed to Tiberius in The Annals of Imperial Rome (Book II, translator chapter 5), by Tacitus, translated by Michael Grant (Penguin Classics, 1996).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"Love your neighbor

Yet don't pull down your hedge."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008). 

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Sima Qian

Sima Qian (c. 145-90 BCE)

"Truly, whether one achieves order or unrest in government depends in the end upon how well one plans."

• From the Records of the Grand Historian (Shi Ji 11) by Sima Qian. Translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1993).

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1342-1400)

"When something's difficult, or can't be had,
We crave and cry for it all day like mad.
Forbid a thing, we pine for it all night,
Press fast upon is and we take to flight."

• From The Canterbury Tales (The Wife of Bath's Prologue) by Geoffrey Chaucer, translated to modern English by Nevill Coghill (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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Macarius the Great

Macarius the Great (sayings recorded between 4th and 6th century)

"Like the dead, take no account of either the scorn of men or their praises, and you can be saved."

• Quote attributed to the 4th-century Egyptian ascetic, Macarius the Great, in Sayings of the Desert Fathers, edited and translated by Sister Benedicta Ward, Cistercian Studies, 1975.

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Herodotus

Herodotus (c. 490-425/420)

"It is much more agreeable to be the object of envy than of pity."

• A quote in the character of the Cornthian tyrant, Periander, from The Histories by Herodotus (Book III), translated by Aubrey De Sélincourt and revised by John Marincola (Penguin Classics, 2002). 

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Nennius

Nennius (9th century)

"It is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from the humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golden goblet."

• From History of the Britons by Nennius, translated by J. A. Giles (c. 19th century), republished by Oxford University Press, 2018. 

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Homer

   
Homer (flourished 700 BCE)

"The War-god in his fury is no respecter of persons."

• The Odyssey (Book 11) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and edited by D. C. H. Rieu. New York: Penguin Classics, 2009.

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Brynhild (Saga of the Volsungs)

Brynhild
(Valkyrie from The Saga of the Volgungs, written anonymously in the 13th century)

"Although caught by nightfall, do not take shelter near the road, for foul beings who bewilder men often live there."

• From The Saga of the Volsungs (chapter 22), by an anonymous 13th century Icelander, translated by Jesse L. Byock (Penguin Classics, 1990, 1999).

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Geoffrey of Monmouth

"Accept me, too, as your writer, so that, reclining in the shade of a tree which spreads so wide, and sheltered from envious and malicious enemies, I may be able in peaceful harmony to make music on the reed-pipe of a muse who really belongs to you."

• Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain (the Dedication), completed in 1136 CE, translated from Latin into English by Lewis Thorpe (Penguin Classics, 1966).

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)

"Glass, China and Reputation are easily cracked and never well mended."

• From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (Seven Treasures Publications, 2008). 

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Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu (sayings recorded c. 6th-3rd century BCE)

"Excessive rewards
      Are a sign
      Of desperation.

Excessive punishments
      Are a sign
      Of exhaustion."

This quote comes from Sun Tzu's The Art of War (Chapter Nine), translated by John Minford (Penguin Classics edition, 2009). The terracotta warriors were photographed by Kevin Poh and published under the CC 2.0 license.


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Thucydides

Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE)

"Once you come forward in the role of liberators, you will find that your strength in the war is enormously increased."

• History of the Peloponnesian War (Book III, section 13) by Thucydides, translated by Rex Warner (Penguin Classics, 1972). 

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Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan (c. 1364-1430)

"Condemning all women in order to help some misguided men get over foolish behavior is tantamount to denouncing fire, which is a vital and beneficial element, just because some people are burnt by it, or to cursing water just because some people are drowned in it."

• From The Book of the City of Ladies (Part I, chapter 8) by Christine de Pizan, translated by Rosalind Brown-Grant (Penguin Classics, 1999).

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Lao Tzu

Lao Tau (c. 6th-5th Century BCE)

"The Way is broad, reaching left as well as right.
The myriad of creatures depend onitfor life yet it claims no authority.
It accomplishes its task yet lays claim to no merit.
It clothes and feeds the myriad of creatures yet lays no claim to being their master."

• From Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (Book One, XXXIV), translated by D. C. Lau (Penguin Classics, 1963). 

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Agesilaus II

King Agesilaus II of Sparta (r. 400-360 BCE)

"It isn't positions which lend men distinction, but men who enhance positions."

• Quote attributed to King Agesilaus II in the Sayings of the Spartans, presumably collected by Plutarch, in On Sparta, translated by Richard J. A. Talbert. New York: Penguin Classics, 2005.

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Apollonius of Rhodes

Apollonius of Rhodes (3rd century BCE)

"Please do not
be one among the race of humandkind
whose minds by minor errors tumble rashly
into disaster."

• From Apollonius of Rhodes' epic poem, Argonautica (Book 4), based on the myth of Jason and the Argonauts. The translation is by Aaron Poochigian (Penguin Classics, 2014).

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George Orwell

George Orwell (c. 1903-1950)

"Future historians will have nothing to go upon except a mass of accusations and party propaganda."

• From Homage to Catalonia (Chapter 11) written by George Orwell and edited by Adam Hochschild and Lionel Trilling (Mariner Books, 1969).

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Miyamoto Musashi

Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584-1645)


"The Way of strategy is the Way of nature. When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and strike naturally."

• From Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings, translated by V. Harris (Lord Majesty Productions, 2005 edition).

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Pope Gregory I "The Great"

Pope Gregory I (c. 540-604)

"My very dear sons, it is better never to undertake any high enterprise than to abandon it when once begun."

• From a letter sent by Pope Gregory I to St. Augustine of Canterbury (c. 596) when the members of the mission to Britain appealed to come home early, included in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (and relevant letters), translated by Leo Sherley-Pride, R. E. Latham and D. H. Farmer (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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Emperor Claudius

Emperor Claudius (r. 41-54)

"I decide in favour of the party which has told the truth."

• The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, translated by Robert Graves and edited by James B. Rives. New York: Penguin Classics, 2007.

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"To kill oneself to escape from poverty or love or anything else that is distressing is not courageous but rather the act of a coward, because it shows weakness of character to run away from hardships, and the suicide endures death not because it is a fine thing to do but in order to escape from suffering."

• From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book III, section vii) by Aristotle, translated by J. A. K. Thomson (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (c. 1809-1849)

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

• From The Premature Burial in Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Works (JKL Classics, 2017).

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