Aphorisms
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
True friends stab you in the front.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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