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.
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
All wealth is the product of labor.
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
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.
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