I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
It is opposition that makes us productive.
It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.
How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
To have more, you must first be more.
When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.
Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.
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