WIST

Destiny leads the willing but drags the unwilling.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English writer, physician
Gnomologia, #1274 (1732)
See Seneca the Younger.

We are interested in others when they are interested in us.

Publilius Syrus (d. 42 BC) Assyrian slave, writer, philosopher
Moral Sayings, 16 [tr. D. Lyman, Jr (1862)]

Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist and poet
Journal (29 Feb 1856)
Speaking of Thoreau's style of conversational.

History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.

Josef Stalin (1879-1953) Soviet political leader
“Comrades! Citizens! Brothers and sisters! Men of our army and navy!”, Radio Address (3 Jul 1941)

A few weeks after the invasion of the USSR by Germany.  Full text.

We, in some unknown Power’s employ,
Move on a rigorous line;
Can neither, when we will, enjoy,
Nor, when we will, resign.

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) English poet and critic
“Stanzas in Memory of the Author of ‘Obermann’”, s. 34 (1852)