Aphorisms
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
It is a great thing to know our vices.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
Where there is no property there is no injustice.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Hope is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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