Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

"Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth."

• From The Sign of the Four (Chapter 1), in Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection (Enhanced Media, 2016).

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Sima Qian

Sima Qian (Han Dynasty historian, c. 145-90 BCE)

"When the army goes, our sons go with it."

• From The Basic Annals of Qin in the Records of the Grand Historian (Shi ji) by Sima Qian, translated by Burton Watson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

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Homer

Homer (9th and 8th century BCE)

"Ah, how I wish rivalry
could be banished from the world of gods and men, and with it
anger, which makes the wisest man flare up and spreads much
sweeter than dripping honey through his whole being, like
smoke."

• From The Iliad (Book 18) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and revised by Peter Jones (Penguin Classics, 2014).

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

"I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing."

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

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Thomas à Kempis

Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)

"Levity of heart and neglect of our faults make us insensible to the proper sorrows of the soul, and we often engage in empty laughter when we should rightly weep."

• From The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis translated by L. Sherley-Price (Penguin, 1972).

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Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale (American author, c. 1898-1993)

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."

• Quote by Norman Vincent Peale from "The staying power of Christmastime by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale". As quoted in: Newsweek, Volume 42, 1953, p. 142.

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Aristotle

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)

"As a matter of fact, every bad man is ignorant of what he ought to do and refrain from doing, and it is just this sort of fault that makes people unjust and generally bad."

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

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