Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

We all grow on somebody's grave.

When people go at war they cheapen things.

Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

Any victory would be dear at such a price.

This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.

Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.

There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.

every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing

We only keep what we lose.

To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

You can buy life only with life.

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.

It breaks your heart when you throw something away, but it's what left that counts. It's like worrying about the bits of rock you have knocked off in order to make a beautiful statue. You've wasted half the rock, yeah, but it's the Venus di Milo!

Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

This flag .. is raised not without costs, .. without the costs of having struggled for many years, without the costs of having lost so many lives in order to have a free and sovereign and good Afghanistan.

Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love.