gain

is never possible without losing something.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them.

I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.

is always also loss --- you never gain something but that you lose something.

is achieved by a little loss --- A hook's well lost to catch a salmon.

is made through sacrifice --- You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout. (G. H.)

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