Aphorisms
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you". Mature love says "I need you because I love you".
A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
Power always thinks that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
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