"One who reveals your faults to you like a mirror is your true friend, and one who flatters you and covers up your faults is your enemy."
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"Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!"
"The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite."
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