All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don’t win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Profession : Historian

Nationality : English

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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

It’s better to be known by six people for something you’re proud of than by 60 million for something you’re not.

We don’t live in a world that’s black and white.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

You have to wake up a virgin each morning.