Maxim

When you fall, get back up.

“For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.”

— Book of Proverbs, Proverbs 24:16 (KJV) · source Verified
Judaism · Ancient (before 200 BCE)
Translation: King James Version (public domain)

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Falling is not the failure; staying down is. Traditions far apart in time and place honour the person who stumbles, gathers themselves, and rises again, as many times as it takes.

Related expressions

“Our greatest glory is, not in never falling; but in rising every time we fall.”
— Oliver Goldsmith (often misattributed to Confucius), The Citizen of the World (1762), vol. 1, Letter VII. Spoken by Goldsmith's fictional Chinese narrator, who credits Confucius; the line is not found in Confucius's works (see Quote Investigator, https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/05/27/rising/). Spelling modernised from the long s.
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English poetry & literatureEarly modern (1500 – 1800)relation: expressesVerifiedsource
“From the military school of life.—That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (1889), “Maxims and Missiles” 8, tr. Anthony M. Ludovici
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19th-century German philosophyModern (1800 – 1950)relation: similarVerifiedsourceTranslation: public-domain translation (Anthony M. Ludovici)

Score

Moral Rank 60.9 · Evidence E = 13.64

E = ln(1+2.17) + √2.17 + 3·2.17 + 1.5·3 = 13.64

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