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Aphorism of the Day

This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.

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2026-07-05

tiny.ag/htpbx3e8  ·  submitted 1997

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Lao Tsu, in Wisdom and Ignorance and Work and Recreation

2026-07-04

tiny.ag/4xolnjrp  ·  submitted 1997

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

2026-07-03

tiny.ag/hoklinq4  ·  submitted 1997

Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.

Daniel Defoe, in Life and Death

2026-07-02

tiny.ag/hsipkpnw  ·  submitted 1997

If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

2026-07-01

tiny.ag/hksesmq7  ·  submitted 1997

Education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France, in Wisdom and Ignorance

2026-06-30

tiny.ag/qed4rpux  ·  submitted 1997

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates, in Vice and Virtue

2026-06-29

tiny.ag/bku8tth7  ·  submitted 1997

If we are the only intelligent life in the universe, at least there's a finite number of idiots.

Steven Coallier, in Wisdom and Ignorance

2026-06-28

tiny.ag/fm3etwy0  ·  submitted 1997

They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.

Philip Sidney, in Vice and Virtue

2026-06-27

tiny.ag/826svnit  ·  submitted 1998

Every soldier is an enemy.

Erno Paasilinna, in War and Peace

2026-06-26

tiny.ag/jh8e0mpv  ·  submitted 1997

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.

Unknown, in Success and Failure