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.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
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.
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
Never complain and never explain.
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
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.
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.
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