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The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you’re 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

Four months is a lot of living with that little life in you-thinking about it, eating right for it, nurturing it and all of a sudden, it dies.

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

In every parting there is an image of death.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don’t want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.