I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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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.
No one knows where the shoe pinches, but he who wears it.
One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.
ludwig wittgensteinThe shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
carl jungA 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* * * 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."
The shoe that fits one person pinches another.
carl jungA 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."