Source: The Lazarus Project
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
“To lose the thing we love is greater pain
Than to desire and never to obtain.”
Che lasciar quel che s'ama, e peggio assai
Che disiarlo, e non averlo mai.
XVII, 6
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
“One voice, speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies, given time; plenty of time.”
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 3 “The Mad King” (p. 27)
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, chapter 1.
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“A little wit and plenty of authority, that is what has almost always governed the world.”
Un peu d'esprit et beaucoup d'autorité, c'est ce qui a presque toujours gouverné le monde.
Socrate Chrétien, Discours VIII.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 230.
Socrate Chrétien (1662)
“Plenty of eloquence, not enough wisdom”
Satis eloquentiae, sapientiae parum.
said of Catiline
Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC)
