Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
Interpretation
Success and failure are equally valuable experiences in life.
This quote by Thomas Jefferson suggests that both victory and defeat come with their own lessons and significance. It highlights the idea that neither outcome is superior, and that both contribute to personal growth and understanding; embracing both can lead to a more profound appreciation of life's journey.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience and the importance of learning from failures.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.
The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.
I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.
Lust is the cause of generation_x000D_ _x000D_ Appetite is the support of life_x000D_ _x000D_ Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and_x000D_ _x000D_ Fraud the preservation of its instruments.
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