"They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hungerâ€¦ they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poorâ€¦ They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace."

-- Tacitus

#Ambition Quotes #Land Quotes #Greed Quotes

“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”
“You don't like to see your guys take the field without you because it makes you feel like, man, maybe they really don't need me out there, which is kind of humbling.”
“See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.”

Source : 1612 The White Devil, act 2, sc.1.
“The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief.”
“You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater.”
“I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or economical; whether it affects well-being, morality, equality, right, justice, progress, responsibility, property, labor, exchange, capital, wages, taxes, population, credit, or Government; at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the same thingâ€”the solution of the social problem is in liberty.”
“Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable”
“The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.”

Source : William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to young men, and, incidentally, to young women, in the middle and higher ranks of life, in a series of letters”, p.51

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