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comment by AshShields
AshShields  ·  4349 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's the best (and/or most interesting) piece of advice you've ever heard?

I remember hearing an old story about that one. An ancient king once asked his advisers to give him a phrase that could cheer him up when he was down, and that could also be used to bring him down when he was happy. After many failures, someone eventually told him: "this too shall pass".