Aphorisms
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Hope is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
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