More quotes by Poul Anderson
For the ordinary man, instability—change—means dislocation, war, uncertainty, misery, and death.
Man’s duty in this life, he thought, is to choose the lesser evil.
“Destiny,” said John. “The ghastliest word a man can speak.”
Men, whose span is cruelly short, rush nonetheless to death in their youth as to a maiden’s arms.
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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.
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