Aphorisms
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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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