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Courage leads to Heaven; fear to death.
——Seneca

My salad days; when I was green in judgment.
——Shakespeare

Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.
——Tao Te Jing

Conceit is incompatible with understanding. 
——Tolstoy 

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
——Zhuang Tzi 

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; in principle is always a vice.
——Thomas Paine 

Those who have loved God most have loved Man least.
——Robert Green Ingersoll 

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.
——Ovid

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin pricks that precede canon shots.
——Napoleon

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. 
——Montaigne

It is easier to pull down than to build up. 
——Latin proverb

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. 
——Johnson 

... the worst cowardice.

This book is sweet ...

Bushido : The Way of the Samurai