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  • #1
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”
    Geoffrey Chaucer

  • #2
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained”
    Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

  • #3
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “No empty handed man can lure a bird”
    Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

  • #4
    Sun Tzu
    “You have to believe in yourself. ”
    Sun Tzu

  • #5
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.”
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    tags: love

  • #6
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “Then you compared a woman's love to Hell,
    To barren land where water will not dwell,
    And you compared it to a quenchless fire,
    The more it burns the more is its desire
    To burn up everything that burnt can be.
    You say that just as worms destroy a tree
    A wife destroys her husband and contrives,
    As husbands know, the ruin of their lives. ”
    Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

  • #7
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “the greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people”
    Geoffrey Chaucer, The Complete Poetry and Prose

  • #8
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.”
    Geoffrey Chaucer

  • #9
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “people can die of mere imagination”
    Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

  • #10
    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #11
    Sun Tzu
    “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #12
    Sun Tzu
    “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #13
    Sun Tzu
    “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
    Sun tzu, The Art of War

  • #14
    Sun Tzu
    “Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory:
    1 He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
    2 He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
    3 He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.
    4 He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
    5 He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #15
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “Purity in body and heart
    May please some--as for me, I make no boast.
    For, as you know, no master of a household
    Has all of his utensils made of gold;
    Some are wood, and yet they are of use.”
    Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

  • #16
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #17
    Adolf Hitler
    “Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.”
    Adolf Hitler

  • #18
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #19
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #20
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #21
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #22
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #23
    Vladimir Lenin
    “Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
    Vladimir Lenin

  • #24
    Vladimir Lenin
    “Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.”
    Vladimir Lenin

  • #25
    Vladimir Lenin
    “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
    Vladimir Lenin

  • #26
    Confucius
    “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
    Confucius, Confucius: The Analects

  • #27
    Confucius
    “The funniest people are the saddest ones”
    Confucius

  • #28
    Confucius
    “Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
    Confucius

  • #29
    Confucius
    “To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.”
    Confucius

  • #30
    Confucius
    “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
    Confucius



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