Aphorisms
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
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.
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.
