Aphorisms
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Art is born of humiliation.
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty', — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
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