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What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.
What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.
No man can lose what he never had.
No man can lose what he never had.
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts.
It's what you do with what read more
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts.
It's what you do with what you have left.
Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss
But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss
But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.
Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that
sense of shame which, once lost, can never read more
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that
sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
[Lat., Periere mores, jus, decus, pietas, fides,
Et qui redire nescit, cum perit, pudor.]
That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all.
That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all.
Things that are not at all, are never lost.
Things that are not at all, are never lost.
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
