Aphorisms
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We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.
I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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.
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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