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By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct. - Honore de Balzac He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. - Bible, Isaiah (ch. LIII, v. 7) What millions died--that Caesar might be great! - Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope (pt. II) Sacrifice to the Graces. - Laertius Diogenes bk. IV, 6 We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Sacrifice to the Muses. - Plutarch, Banquet of the Seven Wise Men Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces." - Plutarch, Life of Marius Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), of Milton's genius
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