“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable ”
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“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable ”
“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg ”
“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way”
“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth”
“My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?”
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great ”
“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it”
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps”
“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness”
“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. ”
“Life has a higher end, than to be amused. ”
“Our ideals are our better selves”
“We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes”
“If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious heaven.”
“Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge”
“Small projects need much more help than great ones”
“The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead”
“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable”
“As is your sort of mind, so is your sort of search: You'll find what you desire”
“Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do”