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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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

“This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog.'

Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World.”
― Napoleon

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
― Freidrich Neitzsche

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
― Albert Einstein

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“God sells us all things at the price of labor.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

“The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.”
― Martin Luther

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
― Confucious

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.”
― Robert Heinlein

“But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.”
― Robert Heinlein

“Live and learn, or you don't live long.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Farnham's Freehold

“My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets

“Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.”
― Robert Heinlein

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan