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Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out. ↗

— David Petraeus

#area #counterinsurgency #extend #literature #oil

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. ↗

— Petrarch

#anger #avarice #banished #enjoy #envy

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. ↗

— Petrarch

#always #because #life #living #love

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. ↗

— Petrarch

#grace #humanity #love #love is

Books have led some to learning and others to madness. ↗

— Petrarch

#learning #led #madness #others #some

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. ↗

— Petrarch

#friendship #suspicion

And tears are heard within the harp I touch. ↗

— Petrarch

#heard #i #tears #touch #within

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. ↗

— Petrarch

#born #fortune #honorable #merit #more

Man has no greater enemy than himself. ↗

— Petrarch

#greater #himself #man #than

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. ↗

— Petrarch

#burden #lighter #more #nor #pen