Aphorisms
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
True friends stab you in the front.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death — that is heroism.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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