Aphorisms
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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
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.
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
All wealth is the product of labor.
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.
A person hears only what they understand.
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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