"… Never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little…
at any rate never have any feelings which may make you
uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on…"
William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair
1847
"Wer spricht von Siegen? überstehen ist Alles."
Rainer Maria Rilke: Requiem, für Wolf Graf von Kalckreuth
1908
"The warriors are dead. The warriors died in two world wars.
Those who remain are the barterers. They know the price of
coffee and cocoa and sugar and flour in a defeated country."
Kay Boyle: The Lovers of Gain
1950