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The best is the enemy of good. Strive for progress, not perfection.
One must cultivate one's own garden. Tend to yourself, and then you are fit to tend to the world.
The comfort of the wealthy makes them the envy of the poor, but the poor man's sleep is sweeter.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
The perfect is the enemy of the good; strive for progress, not unattainable ideals.
The best is the enemy of the good, especially when it prevents any action at all.
One must cultivate one's own garden, and above all, avoid the temptation to admire the weeds in another's.
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to be one's self a fool.
The happiest of all lives is that of a busy person, constantly at work; for work is the true pastime of life.
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
One must cultivate one's own garden; when universal truths are unattainable, find meaning in the particular.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance; enlightenment, its cure.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
The best is the enemy of good. Seek improvement, not perfection.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
The greatest tyranny is not always oppression, but the slow erosion of reason.
It is better to risk starving to death than surrendering. If you give up, what is left?
To hold oneself light is to fly higher than any feathered bird.
The greatest tyranny is not always that which crushes the body, but that which silences the mind.
The perfect is the enemy of the good. Strive for progress, not unattainable ideals.
Never underestimate the power of a well-placed question to dismantle a fortress of ignorance.
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess good manners than good sense.
The safest course is always to doubt, for doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
It is better to risk absurdity than to do nothing.
To be free, we must control our own minds, lest others control them for us.
It is better to risk being wrong than to remain silent and complicit.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Optimism is insistence that the stone you tripped over was but a stepping stone.
The pursuit of truth, even if painful, is a far nobler quest than blissful ignorance.
Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's own garden.