…chance only favours the mind which is prepared…
Louis Pasteur, The Life of Pasteur
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…chance only favours the mind which is prepared…
Louis Pasteur, The Life of Pasteur
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie Curie, Pierre Curie
To get rich, is not always equivalent to being successful.
P. T. Barnum, Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one…
Seneca, Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
Know thyself; know the enemy; fear not for victory.
Sun Tzu, The Book of War