“the price of creation
is never
too high.
the price of living
with other people
always
is.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
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“The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.”
J. William Fulbright (1905–1995) American politician
"The Price of Empire" speech, to the meeting of the American Bar Association in Hawaii (August 1967), in Haynes Bonner Johnson and Bernard M. Gwertzman, Fulbright: The Dissenter (1968), p. 305.
“No price is too high to pay for a good laugh.”
Roscoe Arbuckle (1887–1933) American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
The Cost of a Laugh, Motion Picture Magazine, March 1918. http://archive.org/stream/motionpicturemag152moti#page/n75/mode/2up
“There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) English poet and man of letters
On the Death of Mr. Addison (1721), line 81. Compare: "He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live", Michel de Montaigne, Essay, book i. chap. ix.; "I have taught you, my dear flock, for above thirty years how to live; and I will show you in a very short time how to die", Sandys, Anglorum Speculum, p. 903; "Teach him how to live, And, oh still harder lesson! how to die", Beilby Porteus, Death, line 316; "He taught them how to live and how to die", Somerville, In Memory of the Rev. Mr. Moore.
Context: There patient show'd us the wise course to steer,
A candid censor, and a friend severe;
There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
“Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted.”
Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty
Source: The Art of War, Chapter II · Waging War
Tanith Lee book Vazkor, Son of Vazkor
Book Two, Part I “Yellow City”, Chapter 5 (p. 152)
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)
Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientious objector
Herodotus: History (p. 45)
Classics Revisited (1968)
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), First Inaugural address (1981)
Context: If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price.
William J. Bernstein (1948) economist
Source: The Four Pillars of Investing (2002), Chapter 1, No Guts, No Glory, p. 12.