Афоризмы - кто во что горазд

I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
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Poor are poor,
because
rich are rich.
B. J. Gupta
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A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of the eyes.
Fontenelle
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man, to be regarded as half that clever.
Unknown
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Rudyard Kipling
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Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.
Henry Louis Mencken
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If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Aristotle Onassis.
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My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she says
Unknown
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Unknown
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Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.
Alexandre Dumas
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A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
Benjamin Franklin
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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
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A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be
equal to our present?
Confucius
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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway
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America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.
Oscar Wilde
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America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
Ernest Hemingway
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin
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Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
Oscar Wilde
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Divorces are made in heaven.
Oscar Wilde
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Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
 Confucius
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Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius
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He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know.
Lao Tzu
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Hell is other people.

Jean Paul Sartre

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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Socrates
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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.
Oscar Wilde
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If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius
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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Ralph Waldo
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
Benjamin Franklin
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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
Oscar Wilde
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde

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In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.

Benjamin Franklin
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In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde

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Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius
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It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.
Confucius
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