Posted by: Cheope
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You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
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You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
In my opinion, an autocratic system of coercion soon degenerates; force attracts men of low morality. The time has proven that scoundrels always succeed to prestigious tyrants.
And has a nature so malign and ruthless,
That never doth she glut her greedy will,
And after food is hungrier than before.
If I have seen further than other men it's because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
This evil fortune, which generally attends extraordinary men in the management of great affairs, has been imputed to divers causes, that need not be here set down, when so obvious a one occurs, if what a certain writer observes be true, that when a great genius appears in the world the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Sad eyes never lie.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
I leave to others the conviction of being the best, for myslef I keep the certainty that in life you can always get better.