Aphorisms
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Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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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