“Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return”
Seneca
“To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is the real wisdom.”
Confucius
“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.”
William Somerset Maugham
“The strategy to embrace, extend, and extinguish has not necessarily gone away,”
Simon Phipps
“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.”
Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
“The flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them”
Thomas Jefferson
“There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman”
Victor Hugo