"Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?"

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Source : "Lives". Book by Plutarch translated by Arthur Hugh Clough and John Dryden, 1942.

Alexander the Great

#Army Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Victory Quotes

“Death is a great tragedyâ€¦a profound lossâ€¦I donâ€™t accept itâ€¦I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.”
“I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.”
“Once we were particles of Light, now we are Beings of Light, radiating Love.”
“There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.”
“Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.Because your lover threw wild hands toward the skyAnd the affrighted steed ran on alone,Do not weep.War is kind.”
“Music is the love of my life. Itâ€™s a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpecet and meaningful.”
“Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.”
“The work of art is above all a process of creation.”

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