Aphorisms
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty', — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
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