Aphorisms
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Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Every dog must have his day.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
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