
“To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.”
Source: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Nine, Main Street...Bay Street, p. 195
Il vaut mieux employer notre esprit à supporter les infortunes qui nous arrivent qu'à prévoir celles qui nous peuvent arriver.
Maxim 174.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Il vaut mieux employer notre esprit à supporter les infortunes qui nous arrivent qu'à prévoir celles qui nous peuvent arriver.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.”
Source: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Nine, Main Street...Bay Street, p. 195
" Kids? Just say no: You don’t have to dislike children to see the harms done by having them. There is a moral case against procreation https://aeon.co/essays/having-children-is-not-life-affirming-its-immoral", Aeon (2017)
Lawrence Summers in: David Warsh (February 11, 1992) "Avoiding Weimar Russia", Boston Globe, p. 37, Section: Business.
1990s
Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter One, Don't Need No Edjumacation, p. 12
“What happens to one man may happen to all.”
Maxim 171
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Reg. v. Swendsen (1702), 14 How. St. Tr. 596.
“There is little difference between expecting misfortune and undergoing it; except that grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened; but we fear all that possibly may happen.”
Parvolum differt, patiaris adversa an exspectes; nisi quod tamen est dolendi modus, non est timendi. Doleas enim quantum scias accidisse, timeas quantum possit accidere.
Letter 17, 6.
Letters, Book VIII
“It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.”