Aphorisms
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Wit is well-bred insolence.
Let your desires be ruled by reason.
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.
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Little things affect little minds.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
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