Aphorisms
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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Thy fate is the common fate of all; into each life some rain must fall.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
I love everything that's old, — old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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