Aphorisms
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
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.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Never complain and never explain.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Youth is a blunder, Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance.
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