Nico Kokonas

“The people made their recollections fit in with their sufferings”
― Thucydides

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Groves, with his eye for sizing up people who could get things done, saw the deep ambition Oppenheimer covered with his surface charm.”
― Garry Wills, Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov