Aphorisms
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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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.
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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