“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”
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“The shores of History are strewn with the wrecks of Empires.”
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
“Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.”
“There is always a strong case for doing nothing, especially for doing nothing yourself.”
“I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.”
“The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.”
“She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly—but at a distance.”
“I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”
“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”
“What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.”
“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.”
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”