Aphorisms
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Laws are silent in times of war.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
To begin, begin.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
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