Battle Quote by Plutarch

“There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. We abjure labels. We fight for…

— Glen Cook

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

— Charles Caleb Colton

In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and…

— Thomas Hobbes

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write…

— Thomas Keneally

“History reminds us of the inherent weakness in the human condition and the very real possibility that our fellow human beings are capable of…

— John Fea

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of…

— Edmund Burke

“His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives they were a…

— Ambrose Bierce

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

— Ludwig Borne

“habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts”

— Aristotle

There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

— Dominique Bouhours

But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.

— Edmund Waller

We know that virtue does not matter to history, and that crimes remain unpunished; but that every error had its consequences and venges itself…

— Arthur Koestler