Aphorisms
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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
Sleep after Toil, Port after stormy Seas,
Ease after War, Death after Life, does greatly please.
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
The strong man is strongest when alone.
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Let the path be open to talent.
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
There are two good things in life — freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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