Tag: aphorisms

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Maxims by La Rochefoucauld (34 times)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian (34 times)
Aphorisms by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (27 times)
The Waste Books by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (26 times)
Viking Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection by W. H. Auden (21 times)
The Oxford Book of Aphorisms by John Gross (19 times)
Vastakarvaan : siistimättömiä mietelmiä by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (18 times)
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Nietzsche (16 times)
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (16 times)
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (15 times)
The Trouble With Being Born by Emil Cioran (15 times)
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer (15 times)
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (14 times)
Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin (13 times)
The World in a Phrase : A Brief History of the Aphorism by James Geary (13 times)
Drawn and Quartered by Emil Cioran (12 times)
Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists by James Geary (11 times)
The Faber Book of Aphorisms by W. H. Auden (11 times)
The Book of Shadows by Don Paterson (11 times)
Pensées by Blaise Pascal (10 times)
Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid by Lemony Snicket (10 times)
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (10 times)
Sand and Foam by Kahlil Gibran (10 times)
The Zürau aphorisms of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka (9 times)
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal by Edward Abbey (9 times)

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Language	Translation	Votes	Translator
Croatian	aforizmi	20	posquacchera
Dutch	Aforismen	20	BarkingMatt
German	Aphorismen	20	Ravic

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