Aphorisms
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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
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 only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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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