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.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
It is not possible to go forward while looking back.
Thy fate is the common fate of all; into each life some rain must fall.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly — that is the first law of nature.
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
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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