Aphorisms
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We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
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