"I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs."

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Source : Speech to the Athenians, 432 b.c.; cited in Heinl, Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations (1966).

Pericles

#Mistake Quotes #Design Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“I have always believed that the more educated the clients are, the easier they are to work with. Clients with a knowledge of decorating, and an ability to articulate what they want from the finished project, make the designer's job easier.”
“Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.”
“I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.”
“I feel like a juggler running out of hands.”
“As players, we always have a way to get back at you.”
“In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.”
“It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.”
“Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.”

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