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Aphorist Inspirational Quotes (5897)

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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.
Franz Kafka
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Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.
Mark Twain
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Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.
Seneca the Younger
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. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka
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ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.
Ambrose Bierce
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Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.
Jean de la Bruyere
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We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.
Seneca the Younger
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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
Elias Canetti
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.
Seneca the Younger
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I am only interested in money because everyone else is.
Mason Cooley
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In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.
Mason Cooley
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The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.
Mason Cooley
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It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.
Mark Twain
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The Bible is a sanctum the world, sputum.
Franz Kafka
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Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.
Ambrose Bierce
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Ambrose Bierce
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Cynicism formulates issues clearly, but only to dismiss them.
Mason Cooley
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce
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When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.
Mark Twain
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The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
Seneca the Younger
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain
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Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.
Mark Twain
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