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Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
bread, and how sad a path it read more
Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's
stairs.
[It., Tu proverai si come sa di sale
Lo pane altrui, e com e duro calle
Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale.]
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but read more
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.
Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.