Aphorisms

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Aphorisms

  • There is nothing more tragic in life than the utter impossibility of changing what you have done. - John Galsworthy
  • Nothing is so often irrevocably neglected as an opportunity of daily occurrence. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  • Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it. - Winston Churchill

  • I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • To govern is always to choose among disadvantages. - Charles de Gaulle

  • Caesar`s wife must be above suspicion. - Julius Caesar

  • It`s perfectly understandable that the wolves call for the sheep to be disarmed. Sheep`s wool offers a certain resistance to the wolf`s bite. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  • What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

  • It is as absurd to say that a man can`t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of

    music. - Honore de Balzac

  • Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived. - Agatha Christie

  • A hen is only an egg`s way of making another egg. - Samuel Butler

  • It is not certain that everything is uncertain. - Blaise Pascal

  • Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • If the facts don`t fit the theory, change the facts. - Albert Einstein

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