Victorious warriors win first and then go to war while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
To become properly acquainted with a truth we must first have disbelieved it and disputed against it.
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it or thinks he does as it is to its victims the second it crushes the first it intoxicates. The truth is nobody really possesses it.
It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it it's true.
Everyone who knows me will know the truth which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
Nothing is beautiful only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
The truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable.
All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident.
The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.
The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.
Now the first step has to be taken the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still we will have no chance of escaping the violence.