Aphorisms
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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
For as lack of adornment is said to become some women, so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight.
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
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 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.
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.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Practice is the best of all instructors.
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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