To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands$$$ but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

If you know the enemy and know yourself$$$ your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth$$$ you may make your victory complete.

When one treats people with benevolence$$$ justice$$$ and righteoousness$$$ and reposes confidence in them$$$ the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.

So in war$$$ the way is to avoid what is strong$$$ and strike at what is weak.

It is a positive and active anguish$$$ a sort of psychical neuralgia$$$ wholly unknown to normal life.

You hate men$$$ you've hated Daddy for years$$$ and the sad thing is that he hasn't known it. And the terrible thing is that you hate yourself so much that you just don't hate men or Daddy but you hate everything$$$ animal$$$ vegetable and mineral.

I felt loss at every hand. The loss of self-esteem is a celebrated symptom$$$ and my own sense of self had all but disappeared$$$ along with any self-reliance. This loss can quickly degenerate into dependence$$$ and from dependence into infantile dread. One dreads the loss of all things$$$ all people close and dear. There is an acute fear of abandonment.

Mercifully$$$ I was at that age when reading was still a passion and thus$$$ save for a happy marriage$$$ the best state possible in which to keep absolute loneliness at bay. I could not have made it through those evenings otherwise.

A disruption of the circadian cyclethe metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life seems to be involved in many$$$ if not most$$$ cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day's pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.

Now for a handful of guilders I happen to have a private and uncut performance of the rape of the Sabine Women - or rather woman$$$ or rather Alfred -Get your skirt on Alfred!