Nothing is boring, except people who are bored.
Passions
We groan under the law and forget that our own hands carved the tablets. Why not smash them instead of obey them?
Passions need a pinch of apathy to slow them down to the pace of enjoyment.
Success, by way of ambition, leads to failure.
Throwing a tantrum does not so much release our anger as embarrass us into being more patient.
Our souls get sick for, our bodies sick from, the sea.
To know someone truly, look at what he does when no one is paying him.
Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism...
inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own.
-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
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