Aphorisms
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist'.
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Laws are silent in times of war.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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