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They have been called stories but could equally be miniatures, anecdotes, essays, jokes, parables, fables, texts, aphorisms or even apophthegms, prayers or simply observations.”

I still require the texture of the pages and enjoy underlining clever apophthegms.

I should prefer to reverse the apophthegm, and to say that in life I see the promise and potency of all forms of matter.

There follow a letter of Epicurus to his mother, and another letter from some one unidentified to one Menneas, and then a series of apophthegms and sentences.

The results of these new reflections grew into fixed rules, into proverbs and apophthegms.