Aphorisms
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
Life — a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
Optimism — the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
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