Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. — Albert Einstein

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The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. — Alexander the Great

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Suffering brings experience. ― Aeschylus

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

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