All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out.
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“The wise remind themselves that ‘This too shall pass’ even when things are good; the foolish, only when things are bad.”
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“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.”
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