Aphorisms
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Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
All wealth is the product of labor.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
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 is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
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