Aphorisms
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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