Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929) French soldier and military theorist
Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.
Source: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 152
“Nothing is ever certain.”
— Alice Sebold, book The Lovely Bones
Source: The Lovely Bones
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“The only certainty is that nothing is certain.”
Pliny the Elder book Natural History
Fuller version: This series of instances entangles unforeseeing mortality, so that among these things but one thing is in the least certainthat nothing certain exists, and that nothing is more pitiable, or more presnmptuous, than man! In Latin: Quae singula inprovidam mortalitatem involvunt, solum ut inter ista vel certu sit nihil esse certi nec quicquam miserius homine aut superbius.
Book II, sec. 5.
Naturalis Historia
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Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929) French soldier and military theorist
Source: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 152