A Quote by Emile M. Cioran

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

Emile M. Cioran

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Emile M. Cioran
Philosopher
April 8, 1911 - June 20, 1995

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Bertolt Brecht

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

Susan Sontag

I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.

Fedor Emelianenko

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

John Sayles

I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism.

Orhan Pamuk

True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.

Coco Chanel

I am a series of small victories and large defeats.

Charles Bukowski

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

Ralph Washington Sockman

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

Matthew Thomas

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

Che Guevara

In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats.

Ze Frank

There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.