They had never previously been obliged to engage in such mental effort, and it gave them headaches. However, although the aim of their quest forever eluded them, they ended up finding its outline. If not the thing itself, then at least its shadow. They debated at length on all that referred to it and, to their great surprise, realised that they were already perfectly aware of what they had been looking for. They had always been privy to the main point, the first principle, of the pyramid's raison-d'être, except that it had lain in their minds in a pre-verbal, indeed in an unthinking state. The papyri of the archives had only draped it in words and in meaning. Insofar as a shadow can be draped. . Ismail Kadare
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall means that when you are down there is nothing wrong with falling down because different circumstances may be right for you to rise again. It is the idea that when you are in a bad situation that is not right for you to rise again. This quote is based on the idea that they had never been in a situation where they were required to behave intelligently when they were doing something.

They had always been able to do it when it came to their own activities but when it came to something else they had no idea how they should act.

Source: The Pyramid

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