Aphorisms
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Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Time is money.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death — that is heroism.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
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