Aphorisms
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Woman is the only creature in nature that hunts down its hunters and devours the prey alive.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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.
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
It is better to rust out than wear out.
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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