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Yes, Hannah. The worn-out aphorisms you ask about really do have a name. They are called 'cliches'.

" A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"

" Never look a gift horse in the mouth"

" People in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones"

" The devil makes work for idle hands"

Recently, myself and some friends spent a fair few drunken hours, recanting as many of these type of sayings as possible. We thought the name for them was "aphorism's", certainly they tend to be "short wise saying's" (if not a little bizarre at times) but having arrived on this site have realised that they might not be.

Does anyone know the another more exclusive name for them?

God will never render justice on earth. He would be indicted for his crimes (by Gary E. Holland.)

Has the earth been eclipsed by the God-father's shadow?

One central argument in 2 of Plato’s famous works-the Apology & the Phaedo is that the essential part of man is the soul or mind. They regarded the body as relatively unimportant. In one passage in the dialogue the Phaedo, Socrates even suggests that the body is evil, and that man would be better off without the body.

Socrates and Plato felt that one should never betray one’s own philosophy for any reason, even if the reason is death. Because they firmly believed that we have no cause to fear death, as for the philosopher, death was probably a more desirable state to be in than life because one could reason and contemplate the Forms without the hindrance of perception and the body.

Philosophers were people who pursued wisdom, and according to Plato, the best way to do this was from the mind alone without the body. He believed that the state of one’s soul was of the utmost importance because one’s place in the afterlife and next life was determined by the state of their soul.

How's other's opinion?

"Freedom is not free." by M.A. Fiol. Sorry, but this one is an old one often quoted by U.S. presidents. It's not even an aphorism- just a statement.

"Meditation"... and the observer was absorbed in-by what he oserved." by M.A.Fiol. (M.A. Fiol is brilliantly full of Sutra.)

Gangling, gulping, twitching, flapping, fish blood flowed like rain. "No, my son," the fisherman said. "I don't feel any pain." (by Gary E. Holland)

... and his son replyed: "Then, neither do I."

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M.A Fiol- Why all the second hand aphorisms? I liked your own originals better. Is it possible you've contracted the dreaded "contribute or perish" syndrome?

"Humans are humans. Not one human is more human than the other." by Romeo Dallaire.-- But some beings are less human than others. We call them human beasts.

RE: "Let your passions flow." by M.A. Fiol- Sounds good! (Unless you have the passions of a Hitler, Stalin or Sadam Hussein.)

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