“Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; and so when each had said his say, my mother made them a speech.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“When any civilization is dust and ashes . . . art is all that’s left over.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.”

― Jack London, The Star Rover

“Reader, do you know, as I do, what terror those cold people can put into the ice of their questions? How much of the fall of the avalanche is in their anger? of the breaking up of the frozen sea in their displeasure?”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I replied: There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to enquire, whether the way is smooth...”

― Plato, The Republic

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