The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
The feeling of health is acquired only through sickness.
A book is a mirror If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all.
Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our mouths.
A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they promptly say, 'Oh, I see. That's how it must be.' This is a sign that they explain it to themselves from within their own system.
You can make a better living in the world as a soothsayer than as a truthsayer.
All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself on which is founded the entire integral calculus is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a the rest we don't call y, as we do in common life, but a-x. Hence mathematical language has great advantages over the common language.
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