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“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
― H. L. Mencken, Heliogabalus

“A bad peace is worse than war.”
― Tacitus

“One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.”
― Sun Tzu

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats

“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.

I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected .”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
― Sun Tzu

“If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Be patient, Ophelia.

Love,
Hamlet”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Beware the fury of a patient man”
― Tom Clancy

“He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense. Love keeps no score of wrongs; does not gloat over other men's sins, but delights in the truth. There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, and endurance. [....] In a word, there are three things that last forever: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of them all is love.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
― John Dryden

“Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.”
― Herbert Hoover

“Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.”
― George S. Patton Jr., The Patton principles

“Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book! ”
― George S. Patton Jr.