Aphorisms
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Laws are silent in times of war.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
War does not determine who is right — only who is left.
In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
Cunning is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
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