Aphorisms
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Woman is the only creature in nature that hunts down its hunters and devours the prey alive.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Have no fear of perfection — you'll never reach it.
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
