Aphorisms
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We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Never complain and never explain.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Youth is a blunder, Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
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