"Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues"
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"To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We've got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens."
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"The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind."
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"Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight."
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"When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics."
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"Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? And also - if this isn't too grand a word - our tragedy."
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"Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so"
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"If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best."
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"Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy."
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"For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
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"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even."
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"It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world."
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"The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy."
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"The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision."
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"The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves."
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"It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes."
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"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
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"Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty."
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"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."
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"We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics."
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