Aphorisms
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Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Politics have no relation to morals.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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