Aphorisms
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
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.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
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