Fortresses Quotes

• The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Fate, May

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• A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.

  Marcel Proust

  Language, Knows

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.909, Delphi Classics

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• Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other.

  Francisco Pizarro

  Heart

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• The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, People, Affection

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1513.

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• It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

  Margaret of Valois

  Love, Courage, War

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• We create an image of happiness and success and then we are beholden to it. We tell ourselves stories and sometimes these stories become so strong as to imprison us. Breaking free from our personal fortresses is a long, hard journey, but ultimately what allows one to grow.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Strong, Journey, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save you if you are hated by the people.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love, Hate, People

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.69, Race Point Publishing

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• Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Greatness, Mind

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.133, Jaico Publishing House

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• A fortress is of no use to cowards.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Coward, Use, Cowardice

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• When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

  Antisthenes

  Brother, Strong, Sibling

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• A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.

  Martin Luther

  Failing, Prevailing, Flood

  Martin Luther (1931). “Early Protestant Educators: The Educational Writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Other Leaders of Protestant Thought”, Ams PressInc

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• The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

  Edward Coke

  Home, Castles, Violence

  Semayne's Case (1603)

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• Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison

  John Marsden

  Silence, Sometimes, Prison

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• Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Play, Secret

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• Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

  Eamon de Valera

  Together, Fiction, Masonry

  "I'm Glad You Asked Me That : Irish Political Quotations". Book by Eoghan Corry, 2007.

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• Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Meditation, Contentment

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.377

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• The two fortresses which are the last to yield in the human heart, are hope and pride.

  Lewis Howard Latimer

  Heart, Pride, Science

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• There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.

  John Adams

  Mind, Enemy, Storm

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• His Name will never fall. His Name will never be defeated. His Name will never be reduced to rubble. A tower that’s stronger than any man-made fortress and large enough to see from a distance, even if we’ve lost our way.

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Distance, Fall, Men

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• In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

  Heinrich Heine

  Time, Fighting, Ideas

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.90

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• In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hero, Men, Order

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• There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.

  Regina Brett

  Air, Silence, Solitude

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• This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessed, Precious Stones, Paradise On Earth

  1595 John of Gaunt. Richard II, act 2, sc.1, l.40-50.

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• Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Strong, Prayer

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• It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Europe, Next Day, Enemy

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