“When faith is lost, when honor dies
The man is dead!”
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
Ichabod, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“What is left when honor is lost?”
Maxim 265
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
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“For what in all the world is left to her
Whose chastity is lost?”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Ch'aver può donna al mondo più di buono,
A cui la castità levata sia?
Canto VIII, stanza 42 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer
Source: Night Road
“The trick was forgetting about what she had lost… and learning to go on with what she had left.”
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Love in the Afternoon
“What has that wretched damsel left to boast,
What good on earth, whose virtuous praise is lost?”
John Hoole (1727–1803) British translator
Book VIII, line 285
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)
“What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 177 (22 September 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Context: I have somewhere met with the epitaph of a charitable man, which has very much pleased me. I cannot recollect the words, but the sense of it is to this purpose; What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.
Russell Jacoby (1945) American historian
Source: The End of Utopia (1999), pp. 10-11
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Context: Canst thou judge men?... then make us imitators of thyself, as Socrates did. Do this, do not do that, else will I cast thee into prison; this is not governing men like reasonable creatures. Say rather, As God hath ordained, so do; else thou wilt suffer chastisement and loss. Askest thou what loss? None other than this: To have left undone what thou shouldst have done: to have lost the faithfulness, the reverence, the modesty that is in thee! Greater loss than this seek not to find! (91).
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
As quoted in LIFE magazine (22 April 1957), p. 152; also in Letters and Papers from Prison (1967), p. 47.
Context: Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.