I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
There is no patriotic art.
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.
To have more, you must first be more.
Precaution is better than cure.
Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
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.
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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.
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.
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.
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