“Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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“He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer the worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs his outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, and ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, to bring it into danger.”

― William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

“WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“I’m struck by how, except when you’re young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up your time and energy. If you don’t get that sort of system set by a certain age, you’ll lack focus and...”

― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offence.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

“It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

“The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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