I recommend that people should take an interest in aphorisms. There is so much to learn from these terse sayings, and astute observations.
Have a look at following truisms and see what you think of them.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. - Unknown
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. - Stephen King
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. - Lee Iacocca
Reach for the stars. You won’t reach them, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud, either. - Leo Burnett
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. - Sir Archibald McIndoe
Our repentance is not so much regret for the evil we have done, as fear of its consequences to us. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. - George Eliot
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you and the other to bring the news to you. - Unknown
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. - William Feather
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. - William Hazlitt
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. - Thomas Jefferson
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