Quotes
Quotes about Gain
When some were saying that if Cæsar should march against the city they could not see what forces there were to resist him, Pompey replied with a smile, bidding them be in no concern, "for whenever I stamp my foot in any part of Italy there will rise up forces enough in an instant, both horse and foot."
Zeno first started that doctrine that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,--nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against Nature.
Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour."
For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.
He who flees will fight again.
One of his sayings was, "Even the gods cannot strive against necessity."
Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, "That when they speak truth they are not believed."
Asked what he gained from philosophy, he answered, "To do without being commanded what others do from fear of the laws."
To which we may add this other Aristotelian consideration, that he who confers a benefit on any one loves him better than he is beloved by him again.
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain.
I 'm growing old, I'm sixty years;
I 've labored all my life in vain.
In all that time of hopes and fears,
I 've failed my dearest wish to gain.
I see full well that here below
Bliss unalloyed there is for none
My prayer would else fulfilment know--
Never have I seen Carcassonne!
Boldness, again boldness, and ever boldness.
His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.
The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
As water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.
They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
He that is not with me is against me.
