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Ruin Quotes and Quotations

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

- Rudyard Kipling

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, 'With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.'

- Aeschylus

No man is demolished but by himself.

- Thomas Bentley

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one.

- Voltaire

All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

- Edmund Burke

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Candour and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin.

- Tacitus

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways - women, gambling and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

- Pope John