"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on defeat
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"The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself."

Miller, Henry on enemies
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"Man tends to root for the underdog, because he fears that he will find himself in that same position far too often."

Rosenberg, Michael S. on support
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"The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win."

Howe, Edgar Watson on fights and fighting
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"It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible."

Beecher, Henry Ward on defeat   

"I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God."

Browning, Robert on defeat
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"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."

Daniels, Josephus on defeat
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"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

Hemingway, Ernest on defeat
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"Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity."

Lake, Greg on defeat   

"Opposition is true friendship."

Blake, William on opposition
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"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial."

Burke, Edmund on opposition
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"Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves."

Fowler, Gene on opposition
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"Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity."

Freud, Sigmund on opposition   

"I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them."

Gaulle, Charles De on opposition
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"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense."

Lippmann, Walter on opposition   

"I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on opposition   

"Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on opposition
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"We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone."

Froude, James A. on loneliness
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"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

Einstein, Albert on loneliness
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"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness."

Cousins, Norman on loneliness
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"Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies."

Gracian, Baltasar on anger
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"In our extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too."

Moarny, Suzanne on loneliness   

"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on loneliness
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"We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them."

Maeterlinck, Maurice on loneliness
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"It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath --as terrible as you like --but a mask."

Mansfield, Katherine on loneliness
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"There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"

Twain, Mark on loneliness
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"There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself."

Esra, Abraham Ibn on loneliness
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"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges."

Newton, Joseph Fort on loneliness
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"Strife is better than loneliness."

Proverb, Irish on loneliness
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"He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up. "

Campbell, Eddie on heroes and heroism   

"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."

Picasso, Pablo on art
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"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on truth
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"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."

Thurber, James on lies and lying   

"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."

Sitwell, Dame Edith on silence
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"Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference."

Camus, Albert on aristocracy   

"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."

Jefferson, Thomas on aristocracy   

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."

Brookner, Anita on youth
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