Aphorism


The Zürau Aphorisms
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
Maxims
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
The Waste Books
The Trouble With Being Born
Beyond Good and Evil
Tao Te Ching
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
Unkempt Thoughts
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast (Penguin Little Black Classics, #119)
Bluets
Twilight of the Idols
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Write Tight by William BrohaughHow to Write Short by Roy Peter ClarkTitle to Come by Kevin E. SpallGarner's Modern American Usage by Bryan A. GarnerThe World in a Phrase by James Geary
Short Writing Trove
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Lao Tzu
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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