Aphorisms
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Time is money.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
True friends stab you in the front.
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