Aphorisms
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Have no fear of perfection — you'll never reach it.
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
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.
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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