Feil Abejaron

“The Mongols did not find honor in fighting; they found honor in winning. They had a single goal in every campaign—total victory. Toward this end, it did not matter what tactics were used against the enemy or how the battles were fought or avoided being fought. Winning by clever deception or cruel trickery was still winning and carried no stain on the bravery of the warriors, since there would be plenty of other occasions for showing prowess on the field.”
― Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

“but from a very bad family, too, one can keep precious memories, if only one's soul knows how to seek out what is precious.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“There are a lot of troubled young women in this world. We can't save them all.”
― Min Jin Lee

“How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince