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Almost No Memory
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Aphorismen
I found this while trawling a used bookstore on the weekend. It's a skinny book, but satisfying. It included a number of good aphorisms that I can get behind, like -*Thoughtlessness has ruined more good reputations than ill will.
*Clumsy flattery can be more humiliating than well-founded reproach.
*The hungry are more easily helped than the overfed.
*To have and not give is in some cases worse than stealing.
There were also a couple that I couldn't get behind, like -
*The smaller the grain of sand, the more it considers itself the center of the world. (huh?)
And there were also some that were kind of hokey, such as -
*Don't call yourself poor when your dreams don't come true; the only truly poor are those who've never dreamed. (aaaaahh! runs screaming from the room)
All in all I'm giving it four stars for the hours or aphoristic puzzling and translation fun it provided.