More from Virgil
- Georgics (29 BC), Book III, lines 242–244 (tr. John Dryden).
Do not trust the horse, Trojans.
Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II- Eclogues (37 BC), Book X, line 69 (tr. Fairclough)
More about experience
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5
