To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
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Thus they let their anger and fury take from them the sense of humanity, and demonstrated that no beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Laughing at his own son, who got his mother, and by his mother's means his father also, to indulge him, he told him that he had the most power of any one in Greece: For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians, your mother commands me, and you command your mother.
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