“No longer can I complain that the unrighteous man reaches the highest pinnacle of success. He is raised aloft that he may be hurled down in more headlong ruin.”
Iam non ad culmina rerum<br>iniustos crevisse queror; tolluntur in altum<br>ut lapsu graviore ruant. <br class="br"> In Rufinum, Bk. I, lines 21-23 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/In_Rufinum/1*.html#21.
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“Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.”
Wilkie Collins book Man and Wife
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David Gemmell book Legend
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 7
Context: [A]ll men die.... A man needs many things in his life to make it bearable. A good woman. Sons and daughters. Comradeship. Warmth. Food and shelter. but above all these things, he needs to be able to know that he is a man. And what is a man? He is someone who rises when life has knocked him down. Someone who raises his fist to heaven when a storm has ruined his crop — and then plants again. And again. A man remains unbroken by the savage twists of fate. That man may never win. But when he sees himself reflected, he can be proud of what he sees. For low he may be in the scheme of things: peasant, serf, or dispossessed. But he is unconquerable. And what is death? an end to trouble. An end to strife and fear.... Bear this in mind when you decide your future.
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Source: De potentia (c. 1265–1266) q. 7, art. 5, ad 14
“A man may be down, but he is never out.”
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A slogan Barton wrote for the Salvation Army
George Henry Lewes (1817–1878) British philosopher
On Actors and the Art of Acting (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1875) p. 13
