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Friendship

A quote by Francis Bacon

Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

Francis Bacon

From the source

Apothegms. No. 193.

Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.