Me against my brothers, me and my brothers against my cousins, me and my cousins against the world.≈Old Arab saying
"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. " Burnadette Devlin
I will not gloat over my enemies' predicament before killing them. ≈6th rule of the evil overlord
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Nietzsche
"A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost."-Dean Koontz, "The Good Guy", 2007
"I do not make war on dead men."-Charles V, rejecting called to disinter Martin Luther's corpse