Aphorisms

Topic of the Day: robbery

22 February 2006: at least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing 53 milion pounds from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent

We shall know some day that death can never rob us of that which our soul has gained, for her gains are one with herself.

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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The inspiration of a divine aphorism is often the inferno.

aphorism by Hasier Agirre, translated by Dan Costinaş
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Watch out the dog of your truelove. It cannot pass by you without saying hello.

aphorism by Hasier Agirre, translated by Dan Costinaş
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All the mines that explode in peacetime rhyme with the war.

aphorism by Hasier Agirre, translated by Dan Costinaş
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Love is the second smile of our tragedy. Yet maybe the very first.

classic aphorism by Lucian Blaga from The Discobolus (1945), translated by Dan Costinaş
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