“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
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“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
“The most successful person is usually the one with the best information”
“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.”
“The shortest answer is doing the thing”
“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to discover it in himself”
“There's a way to do it better - find it”
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see”
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them”
“Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert”
“No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.”
“If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious”
“You can find out more about someone in an hours play than during a year of discussing”
“Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God and the angels know of us”
“The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything”
“Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited”
“The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained”
“The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious”
“All men by nature desire knowledge”