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Category: aphorisms

Posted on May 2, 2020May 2, 2020

“God rewards virtue; He shouldn’t have to furnish it.”—Aulus Gellius, Roman author, 125-180 AD

Posted on April 28, 2020April 28, 2020

“The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom—they are the pillars of society.”—Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright, 1828-1906

Posted on April 27, 2020April 27, 2020

“The strongest of all warriors are these two–Time and Patience.”—Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer, 1828-1910

Posted on April 21, 2020April 21, 2020

“I know only two tunes: one is Yankee Doodle, and the other one isn’t.”—Ulysses S. Grant, US president, 1822-1885

Posted on April 9, 2020April 9, 2020

“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.”—Michel Foucault, French philosopher, 1926-1984

Posted on April 5, 2020April 5, 2020

“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.”—Walt Whitman, American poet, 1819-1892

Posted on March 28, 2020March 28, 2020

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'”—Fred Rogers, American television personality, 1928-2003

Posted on March 26, 2020March 26, 2020

“We don’t make mistakes. We just have happy accidents.”—Bob Ross, American painter, 1942-1995

Posted on March 25, 2020March 25, 2020

“May you live in interesting times.”—Chinese (attributed) proverb

Posted on March 16, 2020March 16, 2020

“None climbs so high as he who knows not whither he is going.”—Oliver Cromwell, English statesman, 1599-1658

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