Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgement will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
Experience does not err. Only your judgements err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards the ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
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