"The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words."

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A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.

— Friedrich Nietzsche