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The Futility Closet is a wonderful source of aphorisms of which my regular readers know I am particularly fond. Two more below ... “Character is that which can do without success.” — Emerson ... which got me thinking "What exacly is an aphorism". Yes, I know how ro recognise one but I don't know how to define one. So off to Wikipedia and it tells me. "An aphorism is an original thought, spoken or written in a laconic (concise) and memorable form. [1] Aphorism literally means a "distinction" or "definition", from Greek ἀφορισμός (aphorismós), which is from ἀπό (apo) and ὁρίζειν (horizein), meaning "from/to bound". The term was first used in the Aphorisms of Hippocrates . The oft-cited first sentence of this work (see Ars longa, vita brevis ) is: |
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