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.
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Politics have no relation to morals.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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.
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.
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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