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Evil gains work their punishment.
Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose
I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.
Give up the drop and gain the whole ocean.
Honor and profit lie not all in one sack.
Strain every nerve to gain your point.
It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.
Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.
I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.
No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.
Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.
If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.
You can achieve great economic gains by solving social problems.
The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!
Sometimes you have to lose everything in order to gain yourself.
To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.
Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.
Hope of gain lessens pain.
Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.
Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.
Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining.
No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.
I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.
The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.
There's no gain, without pain.
Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.
Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.
The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.
He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster
We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.
There is no gains without pain.
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.
Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.
Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.
On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.
Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.
Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.