Quotes with battles

Quotes 21 till 22 of 22.

• The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.

  Lao-Tzu
  Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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• Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

  Socrates
  Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• revolutions
• acquisition
• battles
• enemies
• without
• desires

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