Aphorisms
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Misery loves company.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty', — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
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