Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.
Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.
Only through suffering do we learn
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.