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To thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright and poet. His works conventionally include about 38 plays and 154 sonnets. This line is from Hamlet.

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The readiness is all.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright and poet. His works conventionally include about 38 plays and 154 sonnets. This line is from Hamlet.

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A penny saved is a penny got.

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was an American printer, inventor, and statesman. He used this wording (Pennsylvania Gazette, 1732); the proverb is older. Poor Richard’s Almanack (1737) has the related “A penny saved is two pence clear.”

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Fish and Visitors stink in 3 days.

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was an American printer, inventor, and statesman. Exact Poor Richard’s Almanack (1736) wording; the magnet listing is next.

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Where there is no law, there is no freedom.

John Locke (1632–1704) was an English philosopher. This line is from his Second Treatise of Government.

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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil.

Thomas Paine (1737–1809) was an English-born American political writer. This line is from Common Sense (1776).

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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Adam Smith (1723–1790) was a Scottish economist and moral philosopher. This line is from The Wealth of Nations (1776).

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Slow and steady wins the race.

Aesop is the traditional name for an ancient Greek fabulist; authorship of the fables is uncertain. This line is the familiar English of The Tortoise and the Hare.

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While there's life there's hope.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC) was a Roman orator and statesman. English proverb; Cicero cites the same idea in Ad Atticum (9.10). The motto dum spiro spero is a later concise form, not his verbatim coinage.

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We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Seneca (c. 4 BC–AD 65) was a Roman Stoic philosopher and dramatist. Moral Letters 13; Latin: saepius opinione quam re laboramus. This English follows Gummere’s rendering (often shortened).

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If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it.

Marcus Aurelius (121–180) was a Roman emperor and Stoic. This wording is from George Long’s 1862 translation of the Meditations (Book VIII, 47).

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The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Confucius (traditionally 551–479 BC) is the central figure of the Chinese Analects tradition. This mountain/stones line is not found in the Analects; it is a modern English saying often misattributed to him. Magnet not recommended until replaced with a verified Analects line.

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