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Daily Thoughts
Getting Ahead with Failure
Only one thing can put you further ahead than success, and that is failure.
Only one thing can put you further ahead than success, and that is failure.
Exploiting a Setback
Failure is wasted if you return only to the place from where you fell. If your plans fail, think bigger, aim higher.
Failure is wasted if you return only to the place from where you fell. If your plans fail, think bigger, aim higher.
There are seven things that characterize a boor, and seven things that characterize a wise man. A wise man does not speak before one who is greater than himself in wisdom or age. He does not interrupt his fellow's words. He does not hasten to answer. His questions are on the subject and his answers to the point. He responds to first things first and to latter things later. Concerning what he did not hear, he says "I did not hear." He concedes to the truth. With the boor, the reverse of all these is the case.
— Ethics of the Fathers, 5:7
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