“There are two situations in which you can just be you: The first situation is when you’re alone in a room.” Surrounded by Idiots
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. The Art Of War
Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. The Naval Treaty
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