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 only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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