Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselve

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity. – Italian Proverb

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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. – Jane Austen

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I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy. – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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