Every talent must unfold itself in fighting: Such is the command of hellenic popular pedagogy whereas modern educators dread nothing more than the unleashing of so called ambition! - Nietzche
On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long; the creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact---culminating in checkmate---contradicts the hypocrite Dr. Emanuel Lasker
In this life, stormy like a sea, there is one refuge: disdain future vicissitudes, stand dependably and openly, stuanchly meet the blows of fortune, do not hide and do not flinch - Seneca
It is better to die slowly than to die quickly!
When confronting the dubious over the board, it is not always easy for the classicist to prove at once the firmness of the basic cornerstones of chess science. Eduard Gufeld
"Promise me, son, that you will never take the N pawn" Tarrasch on his death bed
Terrorists have no rights.
"Most men are slaves, none more so than the great,/To their own whims and passions, and what not;/ Society itself, which should create/ Kindness, destroys what little we had got:/ To feel for none is the true social art/ Of the worlds Stoics----men without heart" - Byron
The most important thing to keep in mind while trying to dissect human nature is that man is an animal.
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