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Vol. I · Case filesTuesday, October 20, 2026Est. 2026 · $0.00

HEROQUOTEFamous quotes, with receipts.

The index

By person

Marcus Aurelius

121–180 · 1 file

Paraphrase“The obstacle is the way.”

Frederick Douglass

1818–1895 · 1 file

Said it“If there is no struggle there is no progress.”

Albert Einstein

1879–1955 · 1 file

Didn't say it“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803–1882 · 1 file

Said it“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”

Benjamin Franklin

1706–1790 · 1 file

Said it“Lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.”

Mahatma Gandhi

1869–1948 · 1 file

Misattributed“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Theodore Roosevelt

1858–1919 · 1 file

Said it“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.”

Seneca

c. 4 BC–AD 65 · 1 file

Said it“It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it.”

Henry David Thoreau

1817–1862 · 1 file

Said it“Our life is frittered away by detail. … Simplify, simplify.”