Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“He has not lived in vain
who learns to be unruffled
by loss, by gain,
by, joy, by pain.”
The Cherubinic Wanderer
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who learns to be unruffled
by loss, by gain,
by, joy, by pain." by Angelus Silesius?
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“The loss of what we have is pain more dire
Than not to gain the thing that we desire.”
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Che 'l perder l'acquistato e maggior doglia
Che mai non acquistar quel che l'uom voglia.
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Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
George William Russell
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Book I, epistle xvii, line 9
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“He weights losses about twice as much as gains, which is normal.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 26, "Prospect theory", page 288 (ISBN 9780141033570).
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Source: Robert McAfee Brown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McAfee_Brown. Preface for the 25th anniversary edition of Night https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_%28book%29. Page v, Bantam Books paperback; 1982 reissue edition.