Aphorisms
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Hope is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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