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To err is human, to forgive divine; To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world (Chinese proverb) [5] To the victor go the spoils; To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive; Tomorrow is another day; Tomorrow never comes; Too many cooks spoil the broth; Too little, too late; Too much of a good thing
The only family member he loved without reservation was his younger brother, Irik. Where Firan was quick to anger and slow to forgive, Irik was the opposite. Firan pursued his studies and thirsted after knowledge, but occasionally displayed an inability or ignorance of the potential repercussions.
Nice Guys Finish First (BBC Horizon television series) is a 1986 documentary by Richard Dawkins which discusses selfishness and cooperation, arguing that evolution often favors co-operative behaviour, and focusing especially on the tit for tat strategy of the prisoner's dilemma game.
It is generally characterized as the control over excess, and expressed through characteristics such as chastity, modesty, humility, self-regulation, hospitality, decorum, abstinence, and forgiveness; each of these involves restraining an excess of some impulse, such as sexual desire, vanity, or anger. In classical iconography, the virtue is ...
Men were aware of the power they held. Given their choleric "nature", men exhibited hot temperatures and were quick to anger. [120] Peter of Albano once said, "The male's spirit, is lively, given to violent impulse; [it is] slow getting angry and slower being calmed." Medieval ideas of gender assumed men were more rational than women.
The U.S. Education Department updated the student loan forgiveness process for some borrowers who work in public service, including teachers, police officers and social workers. This change, which ...
forgive the interred: it is ungenerous to hold resentment toward the dead. Quote from the Aeneid, III 13-68. parens patriae: parent of the nation: A public policy requiring courts to protect the best interests of any child involved in a lawsuit. See also Pater Patriae. pari passu: with equal step: Thus, "moving together", "simultaneously", etc.
Augustine: If it be not lawful to be angry with a brother, or to say to him Racha, or Thou fool, much less is it lawful to keep in the memory any thing which might convert anger into hate. [ 9 ] Jerome : It is not, If thou hast ought against thy brother; but, If thy brother has ought against thee, that the necessity of reconciliation may be ...