Aphorisms
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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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.
Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
The environment is everything that isn't me.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
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