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“„"I shall succeed!" he said to himself. So says the gambler; so says the great captain; but the three words that have been the salvation of some few, have been the ruin of many more.“”
Le Pere Goriot • Honore de Balzac“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”
Never Give In! • Winston S Churchill“The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and may still be considered as the commonplace of everyday thinking. … An innate blindness seems to have closed the eyes of this epoch to all but those facts which show life as a phenomenon of utility”
History as a System • Jose Ortega y Gasset“Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius“Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.”
A Woman of No Importance • Oscar Wilde