"Everything proceeds from everything else and everything becomes everything, and everything can be turned into everything else."
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"Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue."
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"If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you."
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"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."
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"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."
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"He who walks straight rarely falls."
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"While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior."
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"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
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"Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations."
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"I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life."
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"Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect."
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"A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along."
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"A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements."
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"He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done."
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"You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills"
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"It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand."
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"An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it."
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"Inaction saps the vigor of the mind."
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"There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment."
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"To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man."
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