Aphorisms
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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
I know that two and two make four — and should be glad to prove it too if I could — though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
Men should strive to think much and know little.
Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.
Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space.
All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.
You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.
Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
When one has taken root, one puts out branches.
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Love is a friendship set to music.
You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.
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