"Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin."

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"Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin."

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"To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Gain,

"I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation."

Peter Mandelson, British Politician

Gain, Open, Trade

"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."

Milton Friedman, American Economist

Gain, Party

"We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own."

George W. Bush, American President

Gain, Man, Moon, Ships

"Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain."

William Vickrey, Canadian Educator

Gain, Loss, Sales

"I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate."

Ben Kingsley, English Actor

Gain,

"But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago."

Merton Miller, American Economist

Gain, Loss, Practice, Suffering

"Sometimes the best gain is to lose."

George Herbert, British Poet

Gain,

"I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel."

Victoria Abril, Spanish Actress

Gain, Weight

"If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk."

Robert Baden-Powell, English Soldier

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"He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace."

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"Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death."

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"Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth."

Man

"We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things."

Will

"Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it."

God

"But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper."

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"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy."

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"To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us."

"I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation."

"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."

"We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own."

"Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain."

"I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate."

"But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago."

"Sometimes the best gain is to lose."

"I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel."

"If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk."

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"He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace."

"Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death."

"Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth."

"We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things."

"Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man."

"Acquisition means life to miserable mortals."

"The fool knows after he's suffered."

"Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it."

"But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper."

"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy."