Aphorisms
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We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
Never complain and never explain.
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
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