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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.Joseph Conrad
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.Sir Francis Bacon, Of Adversity
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
(Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland)Wilfred Owen, Poem: Dulce et Decorum est.
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no sin greater than ignorance.Rudyard Kipling
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.Miss Piggy
To love at all is to be vulnerable.C. S. Lewis
The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)