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Life Lessons
Browse our curated selection of powerful and thought-provoking life lessons and quotes that offer insights and perspectives on life, business, family, love, and personal growth.
BACKGROUND · GEORGES DE LA TOUR, THE PENITENT MAGDALEN, C. 1640 · THE MET, OPEN ACCESS
Browse our curated selection of powerful and thought-provoking life lessons and quotes that offer insights and perspectives on life, business, family, love, and personal growth.
Where these lines come from
Film line “Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.” The Godfather Part III (1990), Michael Corleone to Vincent. Transcript excerpts
Film line “Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.” The Godfather Part II (1974), Michael Corleone, repeating what his father taught him. The film says “but”, not “and”. Transcript excerpts
True “Experience is the teacher of all things.” Caesar, Civil War 2.8.3: ut est rerum omnium magister usus, “as experience is the master of all things”, an aside in his account of the siege of Massilia. Latin text
Each line was checked against the original text, or a named translation of it, in September 2026. How we check, and what we will not quote, is set out in our editorial standards.