“There are fights that you may lose without losing your honor; what makes you lose your honor is not to fight.
-Jaques Jaujard”
Source: The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
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American art historian 1956Related quotes
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“In a fight like this, unless you’re willing to lose everything to win, you lose it all by losing.”
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“If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.”
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“This fight is against slavery; if we lose it, you will be made free.”
As quoted in Report of the Joint Select Committee.
“Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth living.”
Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori
et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.
VIII, line 83.
Satires, Satire VIII
“If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.”
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La galantería y la honra tienen esta ventaja, que se quedan: aquélla en quien la usa, ésta en quien la haze.
Maxim 118: (p. 66)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)