Aphorisms
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Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
The environment is everything that isn't me.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
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