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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert
In nature all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything. Shaftesbury III
In misfortune, what friend remains a friend? Euripides
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. Churchill, Winston
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. MacArthur, Douglas
In war there is no prize for runner-up. Bradley, Omar
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on. Frost, Robert
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. Darwin, Charles
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. Lilly, John
In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. Dioum, Baba
Instead of this we have luxury and avarice; public indigence side by side with private opulence; we glorify wealth and pursue idleness; between the worthy and the unworthy we make no distinction; all the prizes of virtue are awarded to ambition. Crispus, Gaius Sallustius
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. Ingersoll, Robert G.