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"It is not defeat, but victory, that takes the greatest toll upon a man. He who lies dead in defeat knows naught but that he fought well and died well. He who lives in victory knows always the pain of war, of battle, of the cost of his victory and his adversaries' defeat. He has the unadmirable task of accounting for himself to history, and even if truly the victor writes history, only the victor must hold himself to trial if he is to lie to make his victory seem more glorious than he knows it is, or to make his adversaries' defeat seem less noble than he knows it must be.
It is not the defeated, but the victorious, who pays for the war - To die a noble death at the height of a nation's glory is an easier path by far, than to rule over a people broken by the drain of creating victory."
The result of letting my brain run away with itself.
~The Thinker
Letting your brain run away with itself is dangerous. Is that cloning? A doppleganger? Or are you just beside yourself in thought? tired of looking inside myself.
ReplyDeleteThe loser has obvious lessons to learn. The winner sits back and gloats while the loser catches up.