Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience which is the parent of instruction and

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Author: Horace

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If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story, if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.