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“Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.”
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights • John Steinbeck“If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.”
Sand and Foam • Kahlil Gibran“The exchange of one fear or pleasure or pain for another fear or pleasure or pain, which are measured like coins, the greater with the less, is not the exchange of virtue. O, my dear Simmias, is there not one true coin, for which all things ought to exchange?—and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage or temperance or justice. ...in the true exchange, there is a purging away of all these things, and temperance, and justice, and courage, and wisdom herself are a purgation of them.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.”
A Journal of Democracy • George Bernard Shaw“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
Book III • Marcus Aurelius