Aphorisms
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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

Aesop

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Tertullian

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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

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Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

William Golding

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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Meister Eckhart

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

William Osler

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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Alexander Pope

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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Lao Tzu

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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

William Wordsworth

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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Michel de Montaigne

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There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Salvador Dali

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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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.

Publilius Syrus

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There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Michelangelo

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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Immanuel Kant

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