Believe flatterers and you’re lost; believe your enemies—and you despair.
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p. 78Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?
Orson Scott Card
each rebel against God, in the last instance, is himself reduced to despair. Despair is the limit -- There and no further!" Despair is the limit. Here are met the cowardly timorous ill-temper of self-love, and the proud defiant presumption of the mind -- here they are met in equal impotence.
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
A person in despair wants despairingly to be himself. But surely if he wants despairingly to be himself, he cannot want to be rid of himself. Yes, or so it seems. But closer observation reveals the contradiction to be still the same. The self which, in his despair, he wants to be is a self he is not (indeed, to want to be the self he truly is, is the very opposite of despair).
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.
Bashar al-Assad
Let us not be deceived — we are today in the midst of a cold war. Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home. Let us never forget this: Our unrest is the heart of their success. The peace of the world is the hope and the goal of our political system; it is the despair and defeat of those who stand against us.
Bernard Baruch
Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von
Eca de Queiroz, Jose Maria
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