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James J. Roche


Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"


...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

Seneca, 65 AD


Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Menander, Unidentified fragment


I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

Titus Livius


War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

Henry Adams


Friends are born, not made.

Sean O'Casey


What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.

The Best of the Best (motion picture)


To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor.

Japanese Proverb


The reverse side also has a reverse side.

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