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1. Nice girls go to heaven, others no matter how far.
2. Loyalty is just the last remnants of old love.
3. Freedom is desired by the strong. Equality is desired by the weak. Not many people care about brotherhood.
4. It's polite not to tell people what you think.
5. A diplomat knows what he is talking about - but he never talks about what he knows.
6. He who seeks, he finds. He who sleeps, he dreams.
7. He who has no character, must acquire rules for his life.
8. The fear of capitalism has forced socialism to expand freedom and the fear of socialism has forced capitalism to expand equality.
9. Practical politics is often the ability to ignore facts.
10. The disadvantage of being intelligent is that you have to constantly learn more and new things.
11. Mausoleum: The mighty last and most ridiculous madness.
12. Antisemitism is the socialism of fools.
13. The sensible people exist, the passionate live.
14. History is a collection of things that could have been avoided.
15. Humour gives a sense of distance.
16. A good way to keep your wife in a better mood is to give her frequent compliments.
17. For things to reveal themselves to us, we must be willing to abandon our opinions about them.
18. Anything that can be finished is good.
19. A woman is hard to deal with, but it's worse to lose.
20. The only thing we need to fear is fear itself.
21. Discussion: A way to get my own and get others' own misconceptions confirmed.
22. A fanatic cannot change his opinion and does not want to change the subject.
23. The easiest way to solve your problem is that, you yourself stop being part of the problem.
    
24. If you want to achieve peace, you talk with your enemies, not your friends.
25. If moral principles make a person gloomy, one can be sure that those principles are wrong.
26. If you have many irons in the fire, you will burn some.
27. When you take your life into your own hands, and what happens? Terrible thing: you have no one to blame.
28. Discipline is a feeling of discomfort I have in the presence of my superior.
29. Castles in the air are easy to take refuge in. And easy to build, but expensive to maintain.
30. I cannot escape my fate, nor can I share it with others.
31. Scratch a little on your loved one, and you'll find an enemy.
32. Passionate hatred can give purpose and meaning to an empty life.
33. Could the term "mother tongue" be because the fathers didn't say much?
34. Corruption is a highway beside the official road.
35. When you hesitate, ask yourself, how much courage do you not dare to use today?
36. When I finally accept myself as I am, I might not be that way anymore.
37. A moral action is not only what I do, but even that I do not do what I ought to do.
38. Music is shorthand for emotions.
39. An eye for an eye only leads to increasing blindness.
40. About writing: Choose the shortest of two sentences, the simplest of two words, the clearest of two images.
41. Experience is an understood observation.
42. I have to take care of my body. It's the only place I can live.
43. The quieter I am, the more I hear.
44. Blessed are the strange people: poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters, troubadours; because they teach us to see the world through different eyes.
45. A modified truth is a reliable lie.
46. It is better to give a task to someone who is enthusiastic than to someone who knows everything.
47. Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
48. Kissing a smoker is like eating out of an ashtray.
49. Envy is poison. But like some other toxins, it can also have a stimulating effect.
50. We forget our mistakes when no one else knows about them.
51. Evil itself drinks most of its own poison.
52. Not talking about yourself at all is a very noble hypocrisy.
53. You have to let people believe they have influence. The main thing is not to let them have it.
54. What we call fate is often due to our unwillingness to anticipate risks.
55. Praise me, I who boast. I need it.
56. Logic is a systematic way of coming to false conclusions convincingly.
57. Don't worry about people talking bad about you. At best it could be envy.
58. Property is an extension of one's own self.
59. Politeness is fictitious goodwill.
60. Courage is nothing but fear that I do not show.
61. The proverbs don't have to be thinking. You can entertain yourself with them. In other words, a kind of sequel to lullabies.
62. Appetite is the luxury version of hunger.
63. Proverbs are short statements derived from long experience.
64. A true friend is the one who knows everything about you and still likes you.
65. You can find the truth more easily by throwing away your own opinions.
66. You can only sacrifice your own life for the ideology, not the lives of others.
67. Happiness is inside a person, not outside of them. Therefore, it is not dependent on what we have but on what we are.
68. Pleasure that has lasted too long is no longer pleasure.
69. Alcohol does not give the answer, but it helps to forget the question.
70. It is more magnificent to be able to observe good sides in bad people, than bad in good people.
71. Love dies of boredom. Oblivion takes care of the funeral.
72. Peace cannot be maintained by force. It can only be achieved through understanding.
73. Sin was invented to make life exciting for the righteous.
74. False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
75. The secret behind success lies not in doing one's job, but in finding the right person to do it.
76. Knowledge is a treasure that follows its owner everywhere.
77. Look not only for faults, but also for remedies.
78. You maybe can free the woman from the imagined sufferings if you explain that they are the ailments of old age.
79. Our life is what we make it with our thoughts.
80. Politics without morality will soon become opportunism.
81. Being different is not a bad thing at all. This means that you are brave enough to be yourself.
82. Socialism:
    - You have two cows, the government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
    Communism:
    - You have two cows, the government takes both and gives you milk.
    Fascism:
    - You have two cows, the government takes the milk from both and gives you milk.
    Nazism:
    - You have two cows, the government takes both and shoots you.
    Bureaucracy:
    - You have two cows, the government takes both, starves one to death,
      milks the other and spills the milk.
    Capitalism:
    - You have two cows, you sell one and buy a bull!
83. Difficulties show what a person really is.
84. Power is that which is conquered, consolidated and expanded.
85. Moss does not grow on a rolling stone.
86. A popular writer writes what people think. A genius makes people think differently.
87. The gifts of happiness are not equally distributed.
88. Live more simply so even others can live.
89. Ideologies are armed ideas.
90. When I speak the truth, I don't have to search for words.
91. The best weapon in a dictatorship is secrecy. The best weapon of democracy is openness.
92. Without a little bit of rudeness, it's impossible to be witty.
93. Belief in God - not wanting to know the truth.
94. The joy of damage is a genuine joy.
95. The difference between democracy and dictatorship is that in a democracy the idiots get to vote - in a dictatorship they rule.
96. It doesn't help to cry over spilled milk.
97. Good aphorisms reveal man, bad the writer.
98. He who speaks ill of others in your presence has nothing against you passing on the gossip.
99. A double standard is good, if you lose one, there is still another left.
100. Most of the most successful were lucky enough to come from the "right environment" and had the right contacts along the way and a successful spread of fame.

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