A righteous man falls seven times.

~Proverbs

But failure only leads to success if we learn the lessons it tries to teach us.  Otherwise we prove the wisdom not of Solomon or Churchill but of Einstein and Hegel:

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

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