Random aphorisms
This rainy evening the wind is restless. I look at the swaying branches and ponder over the greatness of all things.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
Added by Veronica Serbanoiu
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In wine there is the truth.
aphorism by Pliny the Elder
Added by Dana Pătrășescu
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Some dreams do come true. I dreamt the other night that I was sleeping.
aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
Added by Lucian Velea
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The last move of the progress? Learning how to walk backward.
aphorism by Hasier Agirre, translated by Dan Costinaş
Added by Dan Costinaş
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Youth seems to be incomprehensible. The grown
aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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Tiny grass, your steps are small, but you possess the earth under your tread.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
Added by Veronica Serbanoiu
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This longing is for the one who is felt in the dark, but not seen in the day.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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He has made his weapons his gods. When his weapons win he is defeated himself.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
Added by Veronica Serbanoiu
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They have trampled me under foot, true. And what of it? The fact is that I have found how much each of them weighs.
aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
Added by Lucian Velea
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