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.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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.
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