Aforismos en Ingles

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1. It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who hasprospered.

Aeschylus

2. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

Aesop

3. Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Aesop

4. If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.

Anonymous

5. You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Aristophanes

6. The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

7. Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle

8. A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

9. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Berthold Auerbach

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10.Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

George W. Ball

11. Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Maurice Baring

12. Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.

E.R. Beadle

13. What is now proved was once only imagined.

William Blake


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14. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Napoleon Bonaparte

15. What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

Jorge Luis Borges

16. My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of mywants.

J. Brotherton

17. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best

relationship.

Buddha

18. The course of true anything does not run smooth.

Samuel Butler

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19. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

20. We live in a rainbow of Chaos.

Paul Cezanne

21. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who

have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.Dale Carnegie

22. In some cases, non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

Cesar Chavez

23. When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured.

Anton Chekhov

24. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

--G. K. Chesterton

25. A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood.--Chinese Proverb

26. It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous thatyou realize just how much you love them.

--Agatha Christie


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27. Success is never final.

Winston Churchill

28. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit

down and listen.--Winston Churchill

29. 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

30. When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know athing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge.

Confucius

31. Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Confucius

32. History is a vast early warning system.

Norman Cousins

33. A good book has no ending.

R.D. Cumming

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34. Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.

Benjamin Disraeli

35. There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Isaac Disraeli

36. Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.

John Dykes

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37. The environment is everything that isn't me.

Albert Einstein

38. Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Havelock Ellis


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39. The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

40. So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that

the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

41. It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

42. He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,

And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

43. The education of the will is the object of our existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

44. Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much thegreatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

45. Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

Euripides

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46. The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.William Faulkner

47. The voice is a second signature.

R. I. Fitzhenry

48. The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcom Forbes

49. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

50. Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.Benjamin Franklin

51. The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

Northrop Frye

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52. Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

Kahlil Gibran

53. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Kahlil Gibran, from The Prophet

54. The impossible is often the untried.

Jim Goodwin

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55. There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Donald Harington

56. Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a

part.

William Hazlitt

57. All good work is done the way ants do things, Little by little.

Lafcadio Hearn

58. My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest

way.

Ernest Hemingway

59. Nothing endures but change.Heraclitus

60. You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

George Herbert

61. Hope is the poor man's bread.

George Herbert

62. Great deeds are usually wrought at great risk.

Herodotus

63. We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know,

when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

64. Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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65. Hunger is not debatable.

Harry Hopkins

66. Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt.

(The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, theytake many away.)

Horace, fromArs Poetica

67. Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.

(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.)

Horace,from Ars Poetica

68. A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

Edgar Watson Howe

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69. Deep experience is never peaceful.

Henry James

70. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but

indecision.

William James

71. Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

Juvenal

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72. From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be

fashioned.

Immanuel Kant

73. A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.

John Keats

74. My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Clarence Buddinton Kelland

75. Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling


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76. Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Arthur Koestler

77. Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

E. L. Konigsburg

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78. There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

Alphonse de Lamartine

79. People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to

bend.

Walter Savage Landor

80. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.Lao Tzu

81. It is the Vague and Elusive.

82. Meet it and you will not see its head.

83. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao Tzu

84. One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

85. It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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86. Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

Martial

87. The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Karl Marx

88. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

89. We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander


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90. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie

if you were in his place.

H. L. Mencken

91. That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes theheight of wisdom in the next.

John Stuart Mill

92. You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Marvin Minsky

93. How glorious it is -- and also how painful -- to be an exception.

Alfred de Musset

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94. If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you

won't have to work.

Ogden Nash

95. No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Friederich Nietzsche

96. There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Friederich Nietzsche

97. Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.Louis Nizer

98. We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Friedrich Novalis

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99. What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives

everything its value.

Thomas Paine

100. It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Blaise Pascal

101. In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur


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102. Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with

being in the world.

Cesare Pavese

103. The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Edward Phelps

104. We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he

does it, the easier it looks.

Eden Phillpotts

105. The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

106. Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and oftensilence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

107. A catherdral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as

we had hoped.

Marcel Proust

108. Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Marcel Proust

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109. However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even

an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last

time.

Peter Quennell

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110. It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it

elsewhere.Agnes Repplier

111. Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

Cardinal de Retz


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112. Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which

follows him.

Jean Paul Richter

113. We are never so happy or unhappy as we imagine.

Francois duc la Rochefoucauld

114. Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

Francois duc la Rochefoucauld

115. Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not

accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each

humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

Leo Rosten

116. Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Leo Rosten

117. Satire is focused bitterness.

Leo Rosten

118. Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means

that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

Leo Rosten

119. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expectingotherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Theodore Rubin

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120. Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

George Santayana

121. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

122. Fanatacism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your

aim.

George Santayana

123. Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself.

Kajetan von Schlaggenberg

124. Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer


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125. Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Dr Robert Schuller

126. The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for

it.

David Searles

127. All art is but immitation of nature.

Seneca

128. We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the

responsibility for our future.

George Bernard Shaw

129. Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

George Bernard Shaw

130. A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.William Shedd

131. Men of ill judgement oft ignore the good

That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sophocles

132. To him who is in fear everything rustles.

Sophocles

133. The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

134. Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Publius Syrus

135. Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publius Syrus

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136. The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.Rabindranath Tagore

137. Beauty, more than bitternessMakes the heart break.

Sara Teasdale


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138. I am a part of all that I have seen.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

139. There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it

reluctantly.

Terence

140. Nothing is said that has not been said before.

--Terence (185-159 B.C.)

141. Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords

him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Henry David Thoreau

142. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is wherethey should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

143. There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

--James Thurber

144. Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

--Alvin Toffler

145. Not all who wander are lost.

--J.R.R. Tolkien

146. Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Harry Truman

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147. Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become

our very flesh.

Paul Valery

148. In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Margaret of Valois

149. Death twitches my ear. 'Live,' he says, 'I am coming.'

--Virgil

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150. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

--Karl Wallenda

151. One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Lew Wallace

152. And from the discontent of one manThe world's best progress springs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

153. Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and

he will tell the truth.

Oscar Wilde

154. There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no oneelse has a right to blame us.

Oscar Wilde

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155. Surrounding yourself with dwarfs does not make you a giant.

Yiddish Proverb

156. There is no god like one's stomach: We must sacrifice to it every day.

Yoruba Saying

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157. There is more stupidity around than hydrogen, and it has a longer shelf life.

Frank Zappa

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