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The Official: Distilled Wisdom of the Ages, Thread
« on: February 07, 2009, 06:42:48 AM »
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A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
--Gen George S Patton

The moral is to the physical as 3 is to one.
--Napoleon Bonaparte

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
--Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
--Blaise Pascal
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Re: The Official: Distilled Wisdom of the Ages, Thread
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2009, 08:39:44 AM »
A couple from Thucydides:

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."~Thucydides

"The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept."~Thucydides
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"Hell is full of good wishes and desires"~St. Bernhard of Clairvaux

"Brave men are found where brave men are honored."~Aristotle

"Generally speaking, the "Way of the Warrior" is resolute acceptance of death."~ Miyamoto Musashi
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