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Aphorists
- Mark TwainSamuel Langhorne Clemens was born on the 30th of November 1835, in Florida, Missouri. He grew up as the sixth of seven children to Jane Lampton and John…
- George OrwellEric Arthur Blair arrived in the world on the 25th of June 1903 within a house in Motihari, Bengal Presidency. His family belonged to what he called the…
- Oscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde entered the world on the 16th of October 1854 at 21 Westland Row in Dublin. His mother Jane, née Elgee, wrote poetry…
- Friedrich NietzscheOn the 15th of October 1844, a boy named Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born in the small town of Röcken. He grew up near Leipzig within the Prussian…
- Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was born into poverty on the 12th of February 1809, in a log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky.
- Theodore RooseveltTheodore Roosevelt Jr. was born on the 27th of October 1858, at 28 East 20th Street in Manhattan. His youth was defined by debilitating asthma attacks that…
- AristotleAristotle was born in 384 BC in the city of Stagira, located about 55 kilometers east of modern-day Thessaloniki. His father Nicomachus served as the…
- Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges was born on the 24th of August 1899 in Palermo, a poor neighborhood of Buenos Aires. His family lived in a large house filled with an…
- René DescartesRené Descartes entered the world on the 31st of March 1596 in La Haye en Touraine, France. His mother Jeanne Brochard died just days after his birth while…
- Victor HugoVictor-Marie Hugo was born on the 26th of February 1802 in Besançon, a city in eastern France. His father Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo served as a general…
- Franz KafkaFranz Kafka entered the world on the 3rd of July 1883 in a cramped apartment near the Old Town Square of Prague. His father Hermann ran a haberdashery store…
- Mikhail BakuninMikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was born on the 30th of August 1814 into Russian nobility. His family owned the Priamukhino estate in the Tver region, which…
- ConfuciusConfucius was born on the 28th of September 551 BCE in the town of Zou. This location sits within modern Qufu, Shandong province.
- Georg SimmelGeorg Simmel entered the world on the 1st of March 1858 in Berlin, Germany. He was the youngest child among seven siblings born to an assimilated Jewish…
- Ambrose BierceAmbrose Gwinnett Bierce was born in a log cabin at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio on the 24th of June 1842. He entered the world as the tenth child…
- Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal was born on the 19th of June 1623 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. His mother Antoinette Begon died when he was three years old.