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.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
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.
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.
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.
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance.
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