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Friedrich Nietzsche quotesThe aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book -- what everyone else does not say in a book.
Lord Chesterfield quotesMost maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
Oscar Wilde quotesHe would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
Thomas B. Macaulay quotesHe had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
W. Somerset Maugham quotesAnyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
Karl Kraus quotesAn aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
Persian proverb quotesEpigrams succeed where epics fail.
Friedrich Nietzsche quotesIn the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.