“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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Robert M. Edsel1
American art historian 1956Related quotes
Ernest Hemingway book Islands in the Stream
Pt. 2: Cuba (a few paragraphs from the end). The 'boy' is Thomas Hudson's last surviving son, Tom, a fighter pilot who was killed in action.
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“In a fight like this, unless you’re willing to lose everything to win, you lose it all by losing.”
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 3 (p. 41)
“If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.”
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic
Jimmy Lai (1948) Hong Kong businessman
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“This fight is against slavery; if we lose it, you will be made free.”
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821–1877) Confederate Army general
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.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
Disputed
Baltasar Gracián book The Art of Worldly Wisdom
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)