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“As an enemy is made more fierce by our flight, so pain grows proud to see us truckle under it; she will surrender upon much better terms to those who make head against us.”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne““Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, / Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, / The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, / The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.””
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Omar Khayyam“The vine bears three bunches of grapes: the first is that of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, the third of violence.”
Fragment • Epictetus“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.”
Histoire d'un crime • VICTOR HUGO“He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.”
Seagull • Anton Chekhov