Aphorisms that contain everything we need to know about aphorisms: >My ambition is to say in 10 sentences what everyone else says in a book – what everyone else does not say in a book. >– Friedrich Nietzsche >A good maxim is too hard for the teeth of time, and all the millennia cannot succeed in consuming it, though it always serves as nourishment; it is thereby the great paradox of literature: the imperishable in the midst of all that changes. >– Friedrich Nietzsche