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Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.
Hear the Wind Sing
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win
There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
We lost because we told ourselves we lost
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose
Having nothing, nothing can he lose
A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss
In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it
Trivial losses often prove great gains
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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