Quotes By, For and About Eights

People who need to be strong, to prevail over circumstance. When healthy they often are powerful, protective and committed to a cause. When unhealthy they can be destructive, excessive and sadistic.

"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wound green." - Francis Bacon

"The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less." - Eldridge Cleaver

"Tenderness is total love, whereas justice is only a part of love, though it believes itself, mistakenly, to be the whole." - C.F. Ramuz

"To hit someone means to adopt his point of view." - Paul Valery

"He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument." - Chinese proverb

"The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress." - Joseph Joubert

"If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor." - Maeterlinck

"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes." - Antisthenes

"Minds are conquered not by arms but by love and magnanimity." - Spinoza

"When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far." - Eustace Budgell

"If you bow at all, bow low." - Chinese proverb

"Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on "giving as good as they get." - Elbert Hubbard

"My, how beautiful is war! its songs, its leisure!" - Guillaume Apollinaire, L'Adieu du cavalier (Apollinaire died in WWI aged 38)

"He who makes a beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man." - Samuel Johnson