Omnium rerum domina, virtus. Virtue is the mistress of all things. Virtue is the master of all things. Therefore a nation that should never do wrong must necessarily govern the world. The might of virtue, the power of virtue, is not a very common topic, not so common as it should be.
- John Adams, Journal entry (6 August 1796).
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Wind, Joseph Conrad
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
- Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea, (1906), ch. 26.
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- Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea, (1906), ch. 26.
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Necessity, Persian proverb
Necessity turns lion into fox.
- Persian proverb, as quoted in The International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970) edited by Rhoda Thomas Tripp, p. 428
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- Persian proverb, as quoted in The International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970) edited by Rhoda Thomas Tripp, p. 428
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