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.
Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
For as lack of adornment is said to become some women, so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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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