„To turn away from the enemy is cowardice. Misfortune is the fate of the enemy.“

— Mehmed II

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„To turn away from the enemy is cowardice. Misfortune is the fate of the enemy.( When he learned that the Crusaders had come toward him )“
— Mehmed II
„He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bearHis hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:And you all know, securityIs mortals' chiefest enemy.“
— William Shakespeare
„I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.“
— Sigmund Freud
„But I have seen the unknown dead, those little men of the Republic. It was they who woke me up. If a stranger, an enemy, becomes a thing like that when he dies, if one stops short and is afraid to walk over him, it means that even beaten our enemy is someone, that after having shed his blood, one must placate it, give this blood a voice, justify the man who shed it. Looking at certain dead is humiliating. One has the impression that the same fate that threw these bodies to the ground holds us nailed to the spot to see them, to fill our eyes with the sight. It's not fear, not our usual cowardice. One feels humiliated because one understands–touching it with one's eyes–that we might be in their place ourselves: there would be no difference, and if we live we owe it to this dirtied corpse. That is why every war is a civil war; every fallen man resembles one who remains and calls him to account.“
— Cesare Pavese