The word "aphorism" refers to a genre of writing, not a specific book. Many famous authors throughout history have written aphorisms, including:
* Ancient Greek: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
* Roman: Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Cicero
* Renaissance: Niccolò Machiavelli, Leonardo da Vinci
* 17th & 18th centuries: Francis Bacon, George Herbert, William Blake, Samuel Johnson
* 19th century: Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mark Twain
* 20th & 21st centuries: Oscar Wilde, G.K. Chesterton, Winston Churchill, Maya Angelou, and many others.
So, if you are looking for a specific book of aphorisms, you would need to specify the author or the collection you are interested in.