Aphorisms
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Wit is well-bred insolence.
Let your desires be ruled by reason.
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Little things affect little minds.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
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