Aphorisms
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Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
To advise is not to compel.
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
May you live all the days of your life.
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