The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.
In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.
The real secrets are not the ones I tell.
It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
Documents create a paper reality we call proof.
In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.
Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
Many try to force the past to change.
Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.
I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.
Life is what it makes you.
Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.
The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.
Moderation shifts when extremes do.
Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work.
Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.
The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.
Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.
Winning means outlasting everyone else.
Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.
In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
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