One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.
Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.
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