“Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human.” HumansWarEndsActionBloodAll ThingsPerseveranceTriumphToil Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.” MenWayMindEndsHandsAgeLostImaginationOpinionVirtueSeeingWillingHe ManPerseveranceStupidityOld AgeDiverseFinestPreciseRestlessCautiousConstancyThrifty Book:Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality