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.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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.
True friends stab you in the front.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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.
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