Aphorisms
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The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
No man was ever wise by chance.
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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