THUCYDIDES
"... hope is by nature an expensive commodity, and those who are risking their all on one cast find out what it means only when they already ruined"
Thucydides (460BC -400BC)
Excerpt from History Of The Peloponnesian War (Book 5, Chapter XVII: The Melian Dialogue: 103)
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“You married, Manny?”
“No Way.”
“Women?”
“Sometimes. But it never lasts.”
“What’s the problem?”
“A woman is a full-time job. You have to choose your profession.”
“I suppose there is an emotional drain.”
“Physical too. They want to [censored] night and day.”
“Get one you like to [censored].”
“Yes, but if you drink or gamble they think it’s a put-
down of their love.”
“Get one who likes to drink, gamble and [censored].”
“Who wants a woman like that?”
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)
Excerpt from Factotum, Black Sparrow Press 1975
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10.000 ways that don't work."
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
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"Old Chinese saying, 'When No Tiger in Mountain Then Monkey Is King'."
Herbert Osborne Yardley (1889-1958)
The Education Of A Poker Player. 1957
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