"It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave."
-Sallust
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"Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty."
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"As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay."
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"Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay."
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"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means."
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"The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes."
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"I love each and every one of you but, like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger."
-John Buchanan
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"Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else."
-Thylias Moss
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"As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex."
-Adam Sedgwick
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"Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one."
-Lord Halifax
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"I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration."
-Agnes Obel
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"In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well."
-Edmund S. Muskie
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