“Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.”

― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

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“Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her, and to whom she is grateful.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”

― Confucius, Analects

“We do not suffer by accident.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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