Aphorisms
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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
All wealth is the product of labor.
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.
A person hears only what they understand.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
It is not possible to go forward while looking back.
Thy fate is the common fate of all; into each life some rain must fall.
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