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“Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.”

May Littles Law Three Broken Sake Quarters Laws Of Nature Conceit Madmen

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.”

Ifs May War Storm Surrender Treated Civil War Prisoner Quarters Prisoner Of War

Book:The campaigns of lieut.-gen. N.B. Forrest, and of Forrest's cavalry, by T. Jordan and J.P. Pryor

Source: The campaigns of lieut.-gen. N.B. Forrest, and of Forrest's cavalry, by T. Jordan and J.P. Pryor

“Tempests, and bright lightnings, are to be sung; their nature is to be told, and from what cause they pursue their course; lest, having foolishly divided the heaven into parts, you should be anxious as to the quarter from which the flying flame may come, or to what region it may betake itself; and tremble to think how it penetrates through walled enclosures, and how, having exercised its power, it extricates itself from them. Of which phenomena the multitude can by no means see the causes, and think that they are accomplished by supernatural power.”

Source: On the Nature of Things

“If I have accomplished anything, I owe it, among other fortunate circumstances, to the fact that through the early training bestowed on me by my father, I started, I may fairly say, with an advantage of a quarter of a century over my contemporaries.”

Ifs May Facts Father Century Circumstances Training Advantage Fortunate Accomplished Quarters Quarter Of A Century

Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography