Francis Bacon said in 1620 about Aphorisms: “So there remaineth nothing to fill the aphorisms but some good quantity of observation: and therefore no man can suffice, nor in reason will attempt to write aphorisms, but he that is sound and grounded.”

Aphorisms are having a renaissance in Serbia, having a long tradition, using dark humor to come to terms with authoritarian rule.

Some people have formed the Belgrade Aphoristic Circle, meeting at a Boat-house cafés on the Sava River.
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Some examples:

  • “What I experienced in our brotherly union, I wouldn’t wish on my own brother.”
  • “We will do our best not to have any more fratricide. We will stop being brothers.”

A more detailed report is here in the International Herald Tribune of  2 December 2007.