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Aphorism Quotes

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Lao Tzu
“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching

Plato
“There is truth in wine and children”
Plato, Symposium / Phaedrus

Napoléon Bonaparte
“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
Napoleon Bonaparte

Plato
“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
Plato

Emil M. Cioran
“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”
Emil Cioran, All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms

James Thurber
“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”
James Thurber

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

“It's only words... unless they're true.”
David Mamet

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

Friedrich Nietzsche
“I have forgotten my umbrella. ”
Friedrich Nietzsche

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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“The shortest distance between two points is always under construction. ”
Rebecca McClanahan

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

Samuel Butler
“A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.”
Samuel Butler, The Note Books Of Samuel Butler

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