People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.