An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.