Top 10 most searched aphorisms
A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things. Publilius Syrus
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. Charles Dickens
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it. Confucius
Let the punishment match the offense. Cicero
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. Voltaire
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Jane Austen
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself. Seneca
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain
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