Aphorisms
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Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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.
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
