Aphorisms
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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
Life is divided into three terms — that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly — that is the first law of nature.
We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
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