„Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical!“

— Margaret Fuller

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„Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat the enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war.“
— Carl von Clausewitz
„Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.“
— William Shakespeare