If oxen and horses and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and oxen like oxen, and they would make their bodies in accordance with the form that each species itself possesses.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

The real world is the most abstract thing of all.

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop， where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

在向埃及的远征中，拿破仑下达过这样的一个命令。