What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.

What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.

Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.

Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.

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.

The cheerful loser is the winner.

The cheerful loser is the winner.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;
When health is lost, something is lost;
When character is read more

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;
When health is lost, something is lost;
When character is lost, all is lost!

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father,
while the loss of his inheritance might read more

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

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.

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.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.