Escape

Famous quotes containing the word escape:

“It is always fair sailing when you escape evil.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.”
—Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)

“Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)