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.
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.
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.
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.
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
Time is money.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
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