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- Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
- Mencius (371 BC - 289 BC), Works
- A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.
- Sun-tzu (~400 BC), The Art of War. Strategic Assessments
- Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
- Sun-tzu (~400 BC), The Art of War. Emptiness and Fullness
- Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
- Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Rudens
- For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve. - Bhagavad Gita (250 BC - 250 AD), Chapter 2
- On action alone be thy interest,
Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction. - Bhagavad Gita (250 BC - 250 AD), Chapter 2
- Even though work stops, expenses run on.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC), On Agriculture
- But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.
- Polybius (205 BC - 118 BC), History
- I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
- Terence (185 BC - 159 BC), Eunuchus
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