Aphorisms
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Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
A human being is a deciding being.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
Politics is the art of the possible.
Corruption is just another form of tyranny.
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Solitude is independence.
Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
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