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Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do not fulfil them are subjected to personal injuries, the loss of liberty, and even capital punishment. - Leo Tolstoy


Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu


No loss of flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed. - Helen Keller


No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality. - Theodore Roosevelt


We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld


Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Sir Winston Churchill


No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favour, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us. - Seneca [Lucius Annaeus Seneca]


A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair. [La., Gli huomini dimenticano piu teste la morte del padre, che la perdita del patrimonie] - Niccolo Machiavelli


First touch, intimate touch of the personal and particular (the chores in the kitchen, the talk by the fire); then the loss of intimacy in the great stream of the impersonal and abstract (the silent beach, the bowl of stars overhead). Both partners are lost in a common sea of the universal which absorbs and yet frees, which separates and yet unites. Is this not what the more mature relationship, the meeting of two solitudes, is meant to be? - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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