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“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”
― Ovid

“Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.”
― Publius Ovidius Naso, The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters

“Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.”
― Ovid

“I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“or that writing a poem you can read to no one
is like dancing in the dark.”
― Ovid, The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters

“Darkness makes any woman fair.”
― Ovid

“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
― Thomas Hobbes

“Life is nasty, brutish, and short”
― Thomas Hobbes

“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.”
― John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

“The happiness of society is the end of government.”
― John Adams

“The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.”
― John Adams

“To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.”
― Tacitus

“Great empires are not maintained by timidity.”
― Tacitus

“Rarely will two or three tribes confer to repulse a common danger. Accordingly they fight individually and are collectively conquered.”
― Tacitus, The Agricola and The Germania

“He realized that monarchy was essential to peace, and that the price of freedom was violence and disorder.”
― Tacitus, The Histories I-II

“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
― William Francis Butler, Charles George Gordon

“Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

“Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

“Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.”
― Thucydides

“a collision at sea will ruin your entire day”
― thucydides

“Men who are capable of real action first make their plans and then go forward without hesitation while their enemies have still not made up their minds.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

“It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire”
― Thucydides

“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.”
― Homer

“Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“There will be killing till the score is paid.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause. ”
― Homer, The Iliad

“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected, and in the Event of which, their Affections are interested. The laying of a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of Party Censure, is”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
― Thomas Paine

“In times of war, the law falls silent.

Silent enim leges inter arma”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero