Aphorisms
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.
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.
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.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
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