Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched.
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable
There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.