Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899
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Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbWords pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”
—Book of Ecclesiastes, 225 BCMan has here two and a half minutes—one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies.
—Jean Paul, 1795Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 BC