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  • There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life—life's "experiences"—are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Experience Quotes , Wish Quotes
  • From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Fear Quotes , Wish Quotes
  • For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Missing Quotes , Wish Quotes
  • In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Wish Quotes