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Aphorist Inspirational Quotes (5897)

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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.
Seneca the Younger
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Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.
Mason Cooley
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Pantheism, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.
Ambrose Bierce
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The suffering may be moral or physical and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Do something everyday that you don't want to do.
Mark Twain
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The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.
Mason Cooley
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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-
Mark Twain
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The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.
Antoine Rivarol
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For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.
Mason Cooley
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
Seneca the Younger
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I do not see the world at all I invent it.
Franz Kafka
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To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.
Seneca the Younger
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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.
Mark Twain
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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.
Mason Cooley
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
Elias Canetti
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The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to institutions are extraneous. . . .
Mark Twain
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To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!
Jean de la Bruyere
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
Ambrose Bierce
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Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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