Aphorisms
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
True friends stab you in the front.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death — that is heroism.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
A joke is a very serious thing.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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