Aphorisms
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Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
What's done to children, they will do to society.
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
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