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.
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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