Aphorisms
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill — little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
For as lack of adornment is said to become some women, so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight.
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
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