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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Debt is the slavery of the free.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.

A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.

If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.

Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Never promise more than you can perform.

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.

To-day is the pupil of yesterday.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.