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.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
All wealth is the product of labor.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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