Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
—Lord Byron, 1813The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970I have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
—Arnold Toynbee, 1948The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbThe righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 500 BCThe period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal and free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations and horrors of war.
—George Washington, 1786When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BC