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.
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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