Aphorisms
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Those who own much have much to fear.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Now is the winter of our discontent.
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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