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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices
He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De read more
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa
calcamus.]
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all
those who have not a single read more
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all
those who have not a single virtue.
There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.
There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through read more
My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
