Aphorisms
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.
A person hears only what they understand.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
It is not possible to go forward while looking back.
Thy fate is the common fate of all; into each life some rain must fall.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly — that is the first law of nature.
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
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