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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Labor omnia vicit improbus et duris urgens in rebus egestas. Toil conquered the world, unrelenting toil, and want that pinches when life is hard.


— Georgics,1.145-6 (translated by H Rushton Fairclough).

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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

Miguel de Cervantes

— Ch. 5. (Part I)

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No one knows where the shoe pinches, but he who wears it.


— Meaning: "Nobody can fully understand another person's hardship or suffering."
— Source for meaning: Martin H. Manser (2007). The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. Infobase Publishing. p. 289. 
— Mawr, E.B. (1885). Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages. p. 4. 

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One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.

ludwig wittgenstein

— p. 61 (Notebooks 1914-1916)

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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

carl jung

— p. 69 (Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933))

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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."

Plutarch

— Aemilius Paulus, sec. 29.

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* * * And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."


— Plutarch, Lives, Volume II. Life of Æmilius Paulus.

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The shoe that fits one person pinches another.

carl jung

— Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)

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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."


— Plutarch, Lives, "Aemilius Paulus", sec. 29

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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."


— Aemilius Paulus, sec. 29.

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