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“Perfect gain is the best of all; but if that is impossible, then the next best gain is perfect losing.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. . . . If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation
“But come; loss now will be gain then! To wait is harder than to run, and its meed is the fuller.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“There are no gains without pains.” Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose . . . his own soul?” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.” Sophocles, Antigone
“Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
“Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy?” William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
“The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can, and for this they will be praised not blamed; but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“the essential point in running a risk is that the returns justify it.” Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire
“That she belov'd knows nought that knows not this: men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is.” William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

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