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  • #1
    Lao Tzu
    “The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching
    tags: aphorism, philosophy, proverb
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    Plato
    “There is truth in wine and children”
    ― Plato, Symposium / Phaedrus
    tags: aphorism
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    Jacqueline Carey
    “That which yields is not always weak.”
    ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
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  • #4
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: aphorism, self-reliance
    596 likes

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  • #5
    Plato
    “Necessity is the mother of invention.”
    ― Plato
    tags: aphorism
    380 likes

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  • #6
    James Thurber
    “All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”
    ― James Thurber
    tags: aphorism, inspirational
    289 likes

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    Emil M. Cioran
    “Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”
    ― Emil Cioran, All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms
    tags: aphorism, melancholy, misery, syllogism
    351 likes

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  • #8
    “It's only words... unless they're true.”
    ― David Mamet
    tags: aphorism, language, truth
    112 likes

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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: angular, anorexia, anorexic, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, as-thin-as-a-rake, beefy, beer-bellied, big-boned, blubbery, bony, chubbiness, chubby, chunky, corpulence, corpulent, diet, eat, emaciated, energies, energy, fat, fatness, fatty, flabbiness, flabby, fleshy, food, funny, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, gaze, gazing, glutton, gluttony, greed, greedy, gross, grossness, heavyset, hilarious, hollow-cheeked, humor, humorous, humour, impression, joke, jokes, junk, junk-food, lanky, large, lean, looking-like-a-bag-of-bones, meaty, obese, obesity, of-ample-proportions, overweight, paunchy, pinched, plump, plumpness, plus-sized, porky, portliness, portly, potbellied, pudgy, quotations, quotes, rangy, rawboned, repress, repression, roly-poly, rotundity, satire, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skin-and-bones, skinny, slender, slim, spindly, stare, staring, sticklike, stout, stoutness, suppress, suppression, takeaway, takeaways, takeout, takeouts, thin, tubby, underfed, undernourished, urge, urges, waiflike, well-upholstered
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: adage, adages, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, consistency, consistent, crazy, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, fake, gnome, gnomes, happiness, happy, humor, humour, immortality, insane, insanity, insightful, mad, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mortality, pretend, pretense, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, sad, sane, sanity, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sincere, sincerely, thought-provoking, thoughtful, unhappiness, unhappy
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a tender heart," he said.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, The Lost Gate
    tags: aphorism, mockery, sentiment
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: adage, adages, anthropocentric, anthropocentrism, aphorism, aphorisms, arrogance, arrogant, axiom, axioms, belief, beliefs, believe, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, gnome, gnomes, humble, humility, humor, humour, importance, important, insightful, life, life-goes-on, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, modest, modesty, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, really, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sincere, sincerely, thought-provoking, thoughtful, truly
    96 likes

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    Róbert Gál
    “The magic of fiction lies in deluding reason that it is fiction.”
    ― Róbert Gál, Signs & Symptoms
    tags: aphorism
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, arrogance, arrogant, axiom, axioms, boyfriend, boyfriends, convince, convinced, convincing, date, dating, deep, deserve, deserving, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, funny, girlfriend, girlfriends, gnome, gnomes, humble, humbled, humility, humor, humorous, humour, husband, husbands, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, partner, partners, persuade, persuaded, persuading, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, relationship, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, true, wife, wives
    67 likes

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  • #15
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: alone, alone-quotes, aphorism, aphorisms, cellphones, facebook, humor, humour, insane, insanity, instagram, invention, inventions-quotes, isolation, madness, sane, sanity, satire, seclusion, smartphones, smile, smile-quotes, social-media, solitude, technology, technology-addiction, technology-quotes, twitter
    81 likes

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  • #16
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: ambiguity, ambiguous, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, comprehend, comprehension, ear, ears, eye, eyeglasses, eyes, funny, gaze, gazing, general-semantics, glasses, hear, hearing, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, joke, jokes, language, look, looking, misunderstand, misunderstanding, satire, see, seeing, semantics, sight, spectacles, understand, understanding
    53 likes

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  • #17
    S. Spencer Baker
    “Laughter is the antidote to existential pain”
    ― S. Spencer Baker, Slabscape: Reset
    tags: aphorism, humour, pain, philosophy
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    William Penn
    “All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort. It spoils Health, dismounts the Mind, and unmans Men: It reveals Secrets, is Quarrelsome, Lascivious, Impudent, Dangerous and Mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.”
    ― William Penn
    tags: aphorism
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    Friedrich Schlegel
    “An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.”
    ― Friedrich Von Schlegel
    tags: aphorism, hedgehog
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    Kamand Kojouri
    “What you choose also chooses you.”
    ― Kamand Kojouri
    tags: accept, adage, aphorism, axiom, choice, choose, choosing, chose, crave, decide, decision, desire, harmony, interesting, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, maxim, mysterious-ways, mystery, option, prefer, proverb, quote, saying, seek, select, selection, simple-quote, truth, unknown, want, you
    89 likes

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  • #21
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: aphorism, aphorisms, condemn, criticism, criticize, deplore, enemies, enemy, envious, envy, failure, failures, gossip, humor, humour, jealous, jealousy, please, pleasure, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, success, successes, swear
    90 likes

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  • #22
    Saki
    “To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.”
    ― Saki, Reginald
    tags: aphorism, edwardian, humor
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    Franz Kafka
    “If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Castle
    tags: aphorism, existential, life-lessons, motivational
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  • #24
    “The shortest distance between two points is always under construction. ”
    ― Rebecca McClanahan
    tags: aphorism, life
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  • #25
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: act, acting, actor, actors, adage, adages, animal, animals, aphorism, aphorisms, audacity, axiom, axioms, balls, be-yourself, boldness, brave, bravery, cojones, conform, conforming, conformity, courage, courageous, courageousness, daring, dead, death, deep, dictum, dictums, die, epigram, epigrams, facade, facades, fear, fearful, fearlessness, fit-in, fitting-in, fruit, fruits, gallantry, gnome, gnomes, grit, guts, hardihood, heroism, herself, himself, human, human-being, human-beings, humans, humor, humour, insightful, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, inspired, intrepidity, kill, killed, lemon, lemons, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, motivated, motivational, motive, moxie, murder, murdered, nerve, nonconformity, oneself, orange, people, peoples, person, persons, plant, plants, pluck, pluckiness, pretend, pretender, pretenders, pretending, produce, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, self, spunk, standing-out, standout, themselves, thought-provoking, thoughtful, tree, trees, true-grit, valour, words-to-live-by, yourself
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  • #26
    Rebecca West
    “The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.”
    ― Rebecca West
    tags: aphorism
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  • #27
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I have forgotten my umbrella. ”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: aphorism, derrida, interpretation, philosophy
    84 likes

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  • #28
    Steve Wozniak
    “Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window”
    ― Steve Wozniak
    tags: aphorism, computer
    69 likes



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