Aphorisms
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What's done to children, they will do to society.
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.