Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

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Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

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Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

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Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

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There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

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