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““Virtue becomes unhealthy if it is not softened by some misdemeanors, and faith quickly becomes cruel if is not subdued by certain doubts.””
Leo Africanus • Amin Maalouf“A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales • Lucius Annaeus Seneca“The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought. ... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.”
Never Give In! • Winston S Churchill“Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.”
Discourses • Epictetus