Aphorisms
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Our true nationality is mankind.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist'.
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
God works wonders now and then;
Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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