Aphorisms
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

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I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.

Aesop

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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

St. Jerome

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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Voltaire

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Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

Sophocles

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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Jean de La Fontaine

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Aristotle

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Politics have no relation to morals.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Oscar Wilde

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Bernard Meltzer

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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Edgar Allan Poe

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The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

Stephen Hawking

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The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Albert Einstein

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The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Salvador Dali

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I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

Aeschylus

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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Sigmund Freud

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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher

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