Aphorisms
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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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