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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.


Cesare Pavese

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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
BEN JONSON He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
BEN JONSON He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
WILLIAM SAMUEL JOHNSON He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity
BEN JONSON He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
BEN JONSON Gerçek acı çeşitli düşüncelerden meydana gelir. İnsan aynı anda ancak bir şey düşünebil...
CESARE PAVESE Oysa herkes öldürür sevdiği şeyi,
Bu herkesçe biline.
Kimi sert bir bakışla yapar ...
CESARE PAVESE Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, an...
BIBLE IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
GEORGE HERBERT John is a person of strength. He knows who he is. He's a very religious person. He's been through so...
JOE LIEBERMAN But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the fai...
BIBLE Sir, he hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; He hath not eat paper, as it were; he ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his head.
GEORGE HERBERT The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in th...
BIBLE Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
DAVID MALLET He who knows his strength has overcome many difficulties.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA He hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He that hath a wife and children must not sit with his fingers in his mouth
PROVERB If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these ...
BIBLE For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
BIBLE BIBLE For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
BIBLE Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
HENRY FIELDING He who knows he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows no...
PROVERB He that hath a mouth of his owne, must not say to another; Blow.
GEORGE HERBERT He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool. Shun him. He who knows not and knows tha...
ARAB PROVERB He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows ...
PERSIAN PROVERB Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used ri...
HENRY WARD BEECHER He who knows not, knows not, he knows not, he is a fool shun him.
He who knows not and knows h...
BRUCE LEE He hath no power that hath not power to use.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI He who knows not, knows not, he knows not, he is a fool shun him.
He who knows not and he know...
BRUCE LEE He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
JOHN STUART MILL He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
JOHN STUART MILL Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.
RUDYARD KIPLING When one does what is within his control, he knows his only weakness ; but when he does beyond his c...
ANUJ SOMANY If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his...
JOHN THE APOSTLE But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and th...
BIBLE Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
HENRY FIELDING He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
GEORGE HERBERT The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he ...
BIBLE Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregat...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
THOMAS FULLER He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him;
He Who Knows Not And Knows Not...
CONFUCIUS But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he g...
BIBLE He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool - shun him. He who knows not and knows he ...
PROVERB He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; w...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Any man in love with Cesare is already half in love with his sister.
SARAH DUNANT Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who kno...
LADY BURTON He was not going to be intimidated by the established teams. He stacked the cards against his team t...
CHRISTIAN J. HOEY He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hat...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for th...
THOMAS HOBBES Be strong and courageous. Fear not! God will grant you the strength to overcome any adversity.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. [Ger., Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but ...
VACLAV HAVEL The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but t...
VACLAV HAVEL Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not sha...
BIBLE Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.
UNKNOWN He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.
GEORGE HERBERT Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as...
SOPHOCLES Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so...
CRISS JAMI Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not sha...
BIBLE For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath n...
BIBLE Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not sha...
BIBLE Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
GILBERT PARKER Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr'd from every use...
JOHN GAY He was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acute...
JOHN GREEN Do not pray for help when you are facing adversity. Pray for wisdom, strength, and tenacity so that ...
DEBASISH MRIDHA The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he...
BIBLE There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise...
IBN GABIROL There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise...
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL BEN JUDAH When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time h...
ANAïS NIN He who does not tire, tires adversity.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER The person who knows his calling will not be embarrassed in front of great and famous people because...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless an...
HENRY VAUGHAN Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless an...
HENRY VAUGHAN Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
GEORGE HERBERT Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as...
BIBLE Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: / For as ...
BIBLE A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionall...
SHANNON L. ALDER He sees the world in very stark terms. Not good/ evil terms, but his own strict definition of right ...
MARC GUGGENHEIM Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? / He that hath cle...
BIBLE He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.
GEORGE HERBERT He knows we need him real bad. Even if he's not up to par.
FELIPE ALOU Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know
RICHARD BURTON He knows what you want and he gives it to you and it is all about you, not so much about him, so you...
REBECCA LOOS He is not deceived who knows himself to be deceived
LEGAL MAXIM You never know, this could be my last one, ... Not because I want it to be, but who knows what can h...
MARY PIERCE One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better...
CESARE PAVESE One must look for one thing only, to find many.
CESARE PAVESE Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
CESARE PAVESE Love is the cheapest of religions.
CESARE PAVESE Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a si...
CESARE PAVESE One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our naked...
CESARE PAVESE A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, a...
CESARE PAVESE Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals yo...
CESARE PAVESE If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacu...
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better...
CESARE PAVESE One must look for one thing only, to find many.
CESARE PAVESE Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
CESARE PAVESE Love is the cheapest of religions.
CESARE PAVESE Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a si...
CESARE PAVESE One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our naked...
CESARE PAVESE A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, a...
CESARE PAVESE Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals yo...
CESARE PAVESE If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacu...
CESARE PAVESE No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in lo...
CESARE PAVESE If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgivenes...
CESARE PAVESE Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
CESARE PAVESE Lessons are not given, they are taken.
CESARE PAVESE The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
CESARE PAVESE To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whene...
CESARE PAVESE This war burns our houses. It sows dead executed in open squares and roads. It chases us like hares ...
CESARE PAVESE Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single...
CESARE PAVESE Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone ...
CESARE PAVESE We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotte...
CESARE PAVESE We don't remember days; we remember moments.
CESARE PAVESE Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
CESARE PAVESE Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
CESARE PAVESE A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, a...
CESARE PAVESE Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know y...
CESARE PAVESE It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and ...
CESARE PAVESE All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.
CESARE PAVESE Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
CESARE PAVESE One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nak...
CESARE PAVESE The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
CESARE PAVESE Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a...
CESARE PAVESE If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacu...
CESARE PAVESE Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
CESARE PAVESE Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, ...
CESARE PAVESE At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave y...
CESARE PAVESE No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
CESARE PAVESE We are all capable of evil thoughts, but only very rarely of evil deeds: we can all do good deeds, b...
CESARE PAVESE The only joy in the world is to begin.
CESARE PAVESE Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
CESARE PAVESE The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
CESARE PAVESE Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
CESARE PAVESE All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
CESARE PAVESE The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
CESARE PAVESE We do not remember days, we remember moments.
CESARE PAVESE Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, ...
CESARE PAVESE One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
CESARE PAVESE No one ever kills himself for the love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our n...
CESARE PAVESE One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our naked...
CESARE PAVESE If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying va...
CESARE PAVESE Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
CESARE PAVESE One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it better.
CESARE PAVESE One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our na...
CESARE PAVESE Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
CESARE PAVESE When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fir...
CESARE PAVESE Sometimes suicide isn't just an action, its a choice in the back of the mind to save themselves from...
CESARE PAVESE Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our ad...
CESARE PAVESE The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.
CESARE PAVESE Contraries are cured by contraries.
CESARE PAVESE The only joy in the world is to begin
CESARE PAVESE Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest /thought, action /is just a p...
CESARE PAVESE To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant ...
CESARE PAVESE Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world
CESARE PAVESE Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body
CESARE PAVESE Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know ...
CESARE PAVESE We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotte...
CESARE PAVESE Indifference

This hate has blossomed like a living love,
grieving, watching i...
CESARE PAVESE Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know ...
CESARE PAVESE Diaries, 1935-1950

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life:...
CESARE PAVESE Aldırma,hepsi aynı kapıya çıkar. Aramızdaki aşk hikayesi çarpıçı olaylardan değil, en in...
CESARE PAVESE ...kadınların köklü ve kesin bir kayıtsızlıkları vardır
şiire karşı. bu bakımdan "...
CESARE PAVESE Tutta l’arte è un problema di equilibrio fra due opposti.
CESARE PAVESE Un passato deve essere tanto familiare da poterlo rivivere meccanicamente e tanto inaspettato da far...
CESARE PAVESE Il genio non è scoprire un motivo esterno e trattarlo bene, ma giungere finalmente a possedere la p...
CESARE PAVESE Gli uomini che hanno una tempestosa vita interiore e non cercano sfogo nei discorsi o nella scrittur...
CESARE PAVESE L’arte di vivere è l’arte di credere alle menzogne, il tremendo è che, non sapendo quid sit...
CESARE PAVESE L’unica gioia al mondo è cominciare. È bello vivere perché vivere è cominciare, sempre, ad ogn...
CESARE PAVESE Si vendica, e bene, la vita, se qualcuno le ruba il mestiere.
CESARE PAVESE Una cosa sola (tra le molte) mi pare insopportabile all’artista: non sentirsi più all’inizio.
CESARE PAVESE Tutt’al più commuoversi sugli altri,mai su se stesso.
To pity others perhaps, never to pity ...
CESARE PAVESE Gerçek acı çeşitli düşüncelerden meydana gelir. İnsan aynı anda ancak bir şey düşünebil...
CESARE PAVESE Yaşama sanatı, sevdiklerimize onlarla birlikte olmaktan ne büyük bir zevk duyduğumuzu gösterme...
CESARE PAVESE Vivere è come fare una lunga addizione, in cui basta aver sbagliato il totale dei primi due addendi...
CESARE PAVESE La letteratura è una difesa contro le offese della vita.
CESARE PAVESE Oysa herkes öldürür sevdiği şeyi,
Bu herkesçe biline.
Kimi sert bir bakışla yapar ...
CESARE PAVESE Sevgilim, çocuklara şaka yapılmaz. Ben de bir çocuktum.
CESARE PAVESE Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level ...
CESARE PAVESE Leggendo non cerchiamo idee nuove, ma pensieri già da noi pensati, che acquistano sulla pagina un s...
CESARE PAVESE The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with o...
CESARE PAVESE The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the p...
CESARE PAVESE From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
CESARE PAVESE Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
CESAR PAVESE Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
CESARE LOMBROSO The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
CESARE LOMBROSO If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contrac...
CESARE BECCARIA In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of p...
CESARE BECCARIA Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether ...
CESARE LOMBROSO The laws only can determine the punishment of crimes, and the authority of making penal laws can onl...
CESARE BECCARIA Happy are those few nations that have not waited till the slow succession of human vicissitudes shou...
CESARE BECCARIA To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it i...
CESARE BECCARIA Nothing could be more dangerous than following the popular maxim whereby it is the spirit of the law...
CESARE BECCARIA It is the task of theologians to establish the limits of justice and injustice regarding the intrins...
CESARE BECCARIA The moral and political principles that govern men are derived from three sources: revelation, natur...
CESARE BECCARIA Laws are the terms by which independent and isolated men united to form a society, once they tired o...
CESARE BECCARIA If the same punishment is prescribed for two crimes that injure society in different degrees, then m...
CESARE BECCARIA To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, en...
CESARE BECCARIA If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliabl...
CESARE BECCARIA When the code of laws is once fixed, it should be observed in the literal sense, and nothing more is...
CESARE BECCARIA If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I...
CESARE BECCARIA For every criminal case, the judge must construct a perfect syllogism: the major premise must be the...
CESARE BECCARIA Philosophers see no harm in the Jesuits other than in their effect on humanity and the sciences. The...
CESARE BECCARIA In order that punishment should not be an act of violence perpetrated by one or many upon a private ...
CESARE BECCARIA I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which ...
CESARE BECCARIA Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subj...
CESARE BECCARIA By 'justice', I understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the intere...
CESARE BECCARIA Our knowledge and all of our ideas are mutually connected; the more complicated they are, the more n...
CESARE BECCARIA The severity of punishments ought to be relative to the state of the nation itself. Stronger and mor...
CESARE BECCARIA No man can be judged a criminal until he is found guilty; nor can society take from him the public p...
CESARE BECCARIA The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocriti...
CESARE LOMBROSO Easy, simple and great laws, which await nothing but a sign from the lawgiver to spread prosperity a...
CESARE BECCARIA No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a ...
CESARE BECCARIA The lawgiver ought to be gentle, lenient and humane. The lawgiver ought to be a skilled architect wh...
CESARE BECCARIA It is impossible to anticipate all of the misdeeds engendered by the universal conflict of human pas...
CESARE BECCARIA Unless some other factor is operative, in large, weak and underpopulated states, the luxury of osten...
CESARE BECCARIA We are thinking of having 15,000 extra people there. We can fill up the designated spectator areas a...
CESARE VACIAGO We are on budget and the percent average of ticket sales is over our expectations.
CESARE VACIAGO Alarmism was creating turbulence and confusion. Approving the budget has distanced us from these ris...
CESARE VACIAGO We are a country of the last minute.
CESARE VACIAGO We are confident the problems will be overcome in the next few days. It is a learning curve.
CESARE VACIAGO The total number of tickets sold is over 850,000, and we are selling tickets for an average of 8,000...
CESARE VACIAGO Genius is one of the many forms of insanity
CESARE LOMBROSO The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocriti...
CESARE LOMBROSO Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both...
CESARE LOMBROSO Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not ...
CESARE LOMBROSO Sometimes a politically incorrect satirical cartoon can do some good. It's only a reference to a pas...
CESARE CAVALLERI If anyone felt offended in his religious feelings, I freely ask him in a Christian manner for forgiv...
CESARE CAVALLERI Caesar or nothing.
CESARE BORGIA The laws receive their force and authority from an oath of fidelity, either tacit or expressed, whic...
CESARE BECCARIA It will always be considered a praiseworthy undertaking to urge the most obstinate and incredulous t...
CESARE BECCARIA Happy is the nation without a history
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CESARE LOMBROSO Quanto maggiore sarà il numero di quelli che intenderanno e avranno fralle mani il sacro codice del...
CESARE BECCARIA Happy is the nation without a history.
CESARE DI BONESANA BECCARIA What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despis...
CESARE DI BONESANA BECCARIA People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your ro...
CESARE DI BONESANA BECCARIA Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
CESARE DI BONESANA BECCARIA The greatest happiness of the greatest number. [Lat., La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numer...
CESARE DI BONESANA BECCARIA Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--...
CESARE DI BONESANA BECCARIA