Aphorisms
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Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
We find comfort among those who agree with us — growth among those who don't.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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