Quotes with truce

  • Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

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  • Sun Tzu When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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