Battles

Famous quotes containing the word battles:

“Know your enemy as you know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.”
—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)

“In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)