Aphorisms
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Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
We find comfort among those who agree with us — growth among those who don't.
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.
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.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
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