Aphorisms
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Woman is the only creature in nature that hunts down its hunters and devours the prey alive.

Abraham Miller

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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Winston Churchill

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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Alexander the Great

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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

William Blake

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The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.

Morihei Ueshiba

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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

Thucydides

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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford

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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Victor Hugo

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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius

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If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Julius Caesar

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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Plato

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Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

George Sand

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A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Benjamin Franklin

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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.

Anatole France

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Good words are worth much, and cost little.

George Herbert

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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Saint Augustine

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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

William Penn

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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