Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

"The existentialist will never consider man as an end because he is always in the making."

• From Existentialism and Human Emotions (Philosophical Library Inc., 1957 and 1985).

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Tertullian

Tertullian (2nd-3rd century Roman theologian)

"You ought to choose things that are good for you rather than things which are merely not bad for you."

• From Tertullian: Treatises on Marriage and Remarriage translated by William P. Le Saint, 1951.

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Anna Komnene

Anna Komnene
(1083-1153 CE. She was the daughter of Emperor Alexios Komnenos of the Byzantine Empire)

"Full of enthusiasm and ardour they thronged every highway, and with these warriors came a host of civilians, outnumbering the sand of the seashore or the stars of heaven, carrying palms and bearing crosses on their shoulders."

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

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Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu (Chinese strategist and philosopher, 6th-5th Century BCE)

"War is
A grave affair of state;
It is a place
Of life and death,
A road
To survival and extinction,
A matter
To be pondered carefully."

• Quote from The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Chapter 1), translated by John Minford (Penguin Classics, 2009. The battle cross picture was photographed after the D-Day invasion of Normandy; it is Public Domain and housed in the Archive Normandy 1939-1945. The image of Sun Tzu (made transparent) is from a statue of Sun Tzu in China photographed by Flickr user Kanegen (Licensed CC 2.0).

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Apollonius of Rhodes

Apollonius of Rhodes (3rd century BCE scholar and poet based out of Alexandria, Egypt)

"Come, Muses, be the surrogates of my song."

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

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Gregory of Nazianzus

Gregory of Nazianzus (330-390 CE)

"Words do not convince me; I must have deeds."

• From Gregory of Nazianzus: Three Poems, translated by Denis Molaise Meehan (Catholic University of America Press, 1987).

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Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius (Roman Emperor, 121-180 CE)

"Reason is of a diffusive nature, what itself is in itself, it begets in others, and so doth multiply."

• From the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Xist Publishing edition, 2015).

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