A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things, but how we see them.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence, now an excellent life requires exertion and does not consist in amusement.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.

If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

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