Aphorisms
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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.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
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