Aphorisms
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Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Beauty without expression is boring.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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