Aphorisms
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
The doer alone learneth.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them — that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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