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The Best Aphorism

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One of the most important aphorism that I remember and live by is one that my mom told me “es mejor estar solo que mal acompañado” which translated in English means that “it is better to be alone than have bad company”. This aphorism goes back to a verse in the bible from Mateo 5:30 “Y si tu mano derecha te es ocasión de caer, córtala, y échala de ti; pues mejor te es mejor que se pierda uno de tus miembros, y que todo tu cuerpo sea echado al infierno”. In English, Matthew 5:30 states, “If your right hand makes you stumble and leads you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; for it is better to lose one of the parts to your body than for your whole body to go into hell”. The first I heard this aphorism was from my mom we were sitting in the

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