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Aphorism of the Day

This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.

Every single day, a very sophisticated computer running state of the art software carefully picks an aphorism from the collection and sends it out to all the nice people who have subscribed to the Aphorism of the Day. If you want to be one of these nice people, create a user profile and start a subscription.

2010-01-08

tiny.ag/kwzypjqf  ·  submitted 1997

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle, in Work and Recreation

2010-01-02

tiny.ag/m3b4teek  ·  submitted 1997

Death is the final wake-up call.

Doug Horton, in Life and Death

2009-12-27

tiny.ag/wdjstbs9  ·  submitted 1997

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Ed Howe, in Life and Death

2009-12-22

tiny.ag/6ntlf03d  ·  submitted 1997

No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse.

Richard Sasuly, in Success and Failure

2009-12-01

tiny.ag/sq9g8eav  ·  submitted 1997

Dune (paperback)

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Altruism and Cynicism

2009-11-26

tiny.ag/v9nue1vj  ·  submitted 1997

Hearts are often broken when words are unspoken.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

2009-11-25

tiny.ag/4uvnidhy  ·  submitted 1997

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal, in Vice and Virtue

2009-11-07

tiny.ag/ipa5yree  ·  submitted 1997

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

John A. Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), in Wisdom and Ignorance

2009-10-21

tiny.ag/8dhiywlp  ·  submitted 1997

I am not young enough to know everything.

Oscar Wilde, in Wisdom and Ignorance

2009-10-03

tiny.ag/cuh1ej24  ·  submitted 1997

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

Kahlil Gibran, in Law and Politics