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Gained Quotations

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Friedrich Nietzsche

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Voltaire

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Herbert Spencer

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
Bill Cosby