Aphorisms
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Wit is well-bred insolence.
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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