“You never know what you have till you've lost it.”
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“You will never have perfect men, Plato says, till you have perfect circumstances.”
Confessions Of A Sceptic
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
Context: You will never have perfect men, Plato says, till you have perfect circumstances. Perhaps a true saying! — but, till the philosopher is born who can tell us what circumstances are perfect, a sufficiently speculative one. At any rate, one finds strange enough results — often the very best coming up out of conditions the most unpromising. Such a bundle of odd contradictions we human beings are, that perhaps full as many repellent as attracting influences are acquired, before we can give our hearts to what is right.
“In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.”
Heraclidæ (c 428 BC); quoted by Aristophanes in The Wasps
Source: The Children of Herakles
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
Source: Testimony: its Posture in the Scientific World (1859), p. 9
“Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.”
No. 157
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)
“They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.”
Source: The House at Pooh Corner