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.
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.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
It is not possible to go forward while looking back.
Thy fate is the common fate of all; into each life some rain must fall.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly — that is the first law of nature.
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