All Quotes
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Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.Machiavelli, The Prince
A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.Thucydides
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia (III, IV, 96)
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.Dante Alighieri
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.Ambrose Bierce
Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction.J. Gregory Keyes, "Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps"
The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself.J. Gregory Keyes, "Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps"
Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.Melaine Rawn, Dragon Star 1: Stronghold
In that instant he learned what jealousy was. He wanted to know the name of every other man she had ever looked at, whether they had touched her- and most especially where to find these men so that he could kill them.Melaine Rawn, "Dragon Prince 1: Dragon Prince"