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“He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?'

The King replied, 'It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was the fault of the Greek gods, who with their arrogance, encouraged me to march onto your lands. Nobody is mad enough to choose war whilst there is peace. During times of peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who send their sons to the grave.”
― Herodotus, The Histories

“إذا صح أننا نرتفع من خلال المعاناة وننحط بالاستغراق في المتع ، فذلك لأننا نختلف عن الحيوانات. إن الإنسان ليس مفصلا على طراز داروين كما أن الكون ليس مفصلا على طراز نيوتن.”
― علي عزت بيجوفيتش, الإسلام بين الشرق والغرب

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“أيّ ذكرى مؤلمة بالضرورة. حتى لو كانت من ذكريات اللحظات الهانئة، فتلك أيضا مؤلمة لفواتها.”
― يوسف زيدان, عزازيل

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise.”
― Tom Perrotta, Joe College

“Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
― Tom Perrotta, Election