Aphorisms
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Courage is grace under pressure.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Little things affect little minds.
Never, never, never give up.
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
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.
The ego is not master in its own house.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
The only way round is through.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
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