An aphorism is an original thought, spoken or written in a concise and memorable form. Aphorism literally means a "distinction" or "definition". The term was first used in the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. The oft-cited first sentence of this work is: "Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgment difficult."The term was later applied to maxims of physical science, then statements of all kinds of philosophical, moral, or...
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