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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
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.
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.]
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
What's saved affords
No indication of what's lost.
What's saved affords
No indication of what's lost.
Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.
Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.
