Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
BERTOLT BRECHTYoung Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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