Year Truce

Famous quotes containing the words year and/or truce:

    “No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “Our whole life is startingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)