Renatus Quotes

#1. When I was 10, I read James Baldwin's 'Another Country,' and that book broke me. Not because I was encountering homosexual sex and love for the first time, but because the way James wrote about it made it impossible for me to attach otherness to it. 'Here,' Jimmy said. 'Here is love, all of it.

Chris Abani

#2. Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.

Frederick Lenz

#3. No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action ... fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#4. If you want peace, prepare for the war.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#5. Edward was now expressing himself on the subject of the French King, drawing upon a vocabulary that a Southwark brothel-keeper might envy. Some of what he was saying was anatomically impossible, much of it was true and all of it envenomed.

Sharon Kay Penman

#6. Valor is superior to number.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#7. All is fair in love and war; and if this is not love, it was the usual thing that stands as a counterpart for it.

Anthony Trollope

#8. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#9. He was a romantic, he knew it, and he guarded the knowledge jealously.

Stephen King

#10. She explains that lost love is still love.Life has to end but love doesn't

Mitch Albom

#11. Wisdom can be found and held onto ... but wisdom can never be purchased. It is not for sale.

Doug Berry

#12. Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.

Adam Clymer

#13. An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#14. A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#15. Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#16. The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#17. Accept changes, with love, to fill life with happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Who would desire peace should be prepared for war.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#19. In time of peace prepare for war.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#20. The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

Theodore Zeldin

#21. We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus