Aphorisms
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
It is a great thing to know our vices.
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Where there is no property there is no injustice.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Hope is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.