The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered.
There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.