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Aphorist Inspirational Quotes (5897)

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The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.
Mark Twain
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What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes my dear, and my love come from the heart but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?
Mark Twain
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Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?
Mark Twain
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One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself
Mark Twain
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Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
Seneca the Younger
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Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest to really see the things which are before your eyes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
Franz Kafka
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Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Seneca the Younger
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Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
Elias Canetti
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain
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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.
Mark Twain
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It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.
Mark Twain
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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
Mark Twain
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People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
Mason Cooley
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If you corner me, you are going to hear some unwelcome truths.
Mason Cooley
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Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
Elias Canetti
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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