Aphorisms
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
