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.
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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 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.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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