Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. The Art Of War
Do you really think ... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not -- there is no weakness in that. An Ideal Husband
"Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much." Metamorphosis and Other Stories
“With my teeth clenched, however, and with your eyes before me I can endure anything: distance, anxiety, worry, letterlessness.” (16 July 1920) Letters To Milena
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