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.
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
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.
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 sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
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.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
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