There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.
If a man loses a dear friend, he looks around and sees many friends come to console and comfort him. If a man loses his wealth, after a little thought he will realize that the delight that came from wealth will be restored by finding more. Thus he forgets his loss and is consoled. But if a man's heart is deprived of peace, where will he find it again, how will he replace it?
Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.
I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.
To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-.
A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential - here was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy.
All the materialistic things I have been able to have over the last number of years are slowly being taken away from me. It's been really challenging but also it's been encouraging to myself to see what my God is actually doing.
If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.
If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.
Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.
We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields
The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.
