"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults."

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Source : "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius,

Antisthenes

#Inspirational Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Freedom is Letting Go.”
“The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate.”

Source : Robert William Service, “The Land God Forgot”
“I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.”
“The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.”

Source : Gustavo Gutiérrez (1973). “A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation”
“My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.”
“Actually, I don't really like being confused with my image.”
“Today in Washington, D.C., several government buildings were left without power. Of course, the White House will be without power for two more years.”
“We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.”

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