Aphorisms
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Old age is a shipwreck.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
I think the first duty of society is justice.
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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