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«Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?»
«One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.»
«Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.»
«The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.»
«The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.»
«The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself»
«The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.»
«There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice»
«The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.»
«This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.»