"If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me."

Proverb, Italian on experience
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"When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him."

Euripides on empathy
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"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."

Huxley, Aldous on experience
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"The fool knows after he's suffered."

Hesiod on experience   

"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."

Eliot, George on experience
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"The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner."

Calvino, Italo on exile   

"Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship."

Gordimer, Nadine on exile   

"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."

James, Henry on exile
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"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high."

Heine, Heinrich on experience
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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on fear
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"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on fear
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"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on life
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"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on planning
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on assertiveness
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"I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on self discovery
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"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on character
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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on criticism
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"Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on mistakes
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

Bard, Carl on beginning
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God."

Angelou, Maya on children
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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

Angelou, Maya on anger
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"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."

Cicero, Marcus T. on fidelity   

"A friend is, as it were, a second self."

Cicero, Marcus T. on friends and friendship
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"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."

Cicero, Marcus T. on glory
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"Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain."

Cicero, Marcus T. on habit   

"If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!"

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on leadership
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"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

Angelou, Maya on defeat
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"It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on intelligence and intellectuals
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"There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on imitation   

"Men exist for the sake of one another."

Aurelius, Marcus on cooperation
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"Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune."

Aurelius, Marcus on adversity
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"The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid."

Aurelius, Marcus on wisdom
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"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

Aurelius, Marcus on thoughts and thinking
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"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."

Aurelius, Marcus on soul
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"To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions."

Aurelius, Marcus on sociology
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"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."

Cicero, Marcus T. on moderation
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"We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love
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"It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love
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