“There's no great loss without some small gain.”
Source: Little House on the Prairie (1935), Ch. 25; said by Ma, after Pa lost the corn crop to blackbirds but brought home some of the birds for dinner.
“Every joy is gain
And gain is gain, however small.”
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Paracelsus (1835)
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John C. Maxwell
(1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Source: The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
“To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.”
Joan Miró
(1893–1983) Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist
Joan Miró, Joan Miró Foundation
1940 - 1960
“Nor do I hold that every kind of gain is always serviceable. Gain, I know, has render’d many great. But there are times when loss should be preferr’d to gain. (translator Thornton)”
Non ego omnino lucrum omne esse utile homini existimo. Scio ego, multos jam lucrum luculentos homines reddidit. Est etiam, ubi profecto damnum praestet facere, quam lucrum.
Captivi, Act II, scene 2, line 75.
Variant translation: There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. (translation by Henry Thomas Riley)
Captivi (The Prisoners)
“Gain upon gain, and interest to boot!”
Aeschylus
(-525–-456 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), line 437 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
“No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.”
Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter XII : The Greening Of America, p. 383 ( See also: Vilfredo Pareto)
“He has not lived in vain
who learns to be unruffled
by loss, by gain,
by, joy, by pain.”
Angelus Silesius
(1624–1677) German writer
The Cherubinic Wanderer
Sallustius
Roman philosopher and writer
XV. Why we give worship to the Gods when they need nothing.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Context: The divine itself is without needs, and the worship is paid for our own benefit. The providence of the Gods reaches everywhere and needs only some congruity for its reception. All congruity comes about by representation and likeness; for which reason the temples are made in representation of heaven, the altar of earth, the images of life (that is why they are made like living things), the prayers of the element of though, the mystic letters of the unspeakable celestial forces, the herbs and stones of matter, and the sacrificial animals of the irrational life in us.
From all these things the Gods gain nothing; what gain could there be to God? It is we who gain some communion with them.
“Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.”
Hesiod
book
Works and Days
Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 352; compare: "the gains of the wicked bring trouble", Book of Proverbs 15:6.
